Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number 1 seed played to form again in the second leg as it moved to Coventry . |
| 2 | People began throwing suggestions at him , some kindly , some less so , as the same shops came zinging past for the third and fourth times . |
| 3 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 4 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 5 | The United States continued with its permissive monetary policies and dollar outflows began to mount again in the second half of 1972 . |
| 6 | David Atkinson , an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo , notes that the banks ' operating profitability began to deteriorate again in the second half of the last fiscal year . |
| 7 | Parishes were able to cope with their pauper problem until England 's population began to soar dramatically during the second half of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " . |
| 9 | Although there was no hospital in the northern part of the town , where forces loyal to Mahdi Mohammed were concentrated , a surgical team sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) began operating there in the first week of December . |
| 10 | These three countries agreed to cooperate soon after the Second World War . |
| 11 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 12 | I started reading more about the 19th century Swinbrook … about the great wood of Wychwood . |
| 13 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 14 | UK Life operations continued to perform well in the first three months of the year . |
| 15 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 16 | She knew her character had altered completely over the last few years . |
| 17 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 18 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 19 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 20 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 21 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |
| 22 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 23 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 24 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 25 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 26 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 27 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 28 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 29 | The population of Europe , including Russia , had grown steadily since the seventeenth century , and continued to do so after 1880 . |
| 30 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |