Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 2 | Certainly the geographical scope of European and European-style diplomacy expanded strikingly during the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 4 | The scale of private charity expanded remarkably in the mid-nineteenth century and offered considerable protection to the poor against the rigours of the Poor Law . |
| 5 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 6 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 7 | The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person . |
| 8 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 9 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 10 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 11 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 12 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 13 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 14 | Speaking on implementing the guidelines laid down by the fifth plenum , government spokesperson Yuan Mu said on Nov. 22 : " The main problem behind the many mistakes which have occurred in China in the past lies within the party and it is therefore necessary first to focus attention on the party itself in solving the problem " ( of " dilution and weakening of party leadership , neglect of ideological and political work , and neglect of the building of party style " ) . |
| 15 | Responsibilities , I mean , it would have to be torn down and build up again it was in such a bad shape , it was really , I mean , terrible , it must of been , it was , it was man who lived in since the second world war , alright , so you get . |
| 16 | ( The rape and incest clauses applied only until the 13th week of gestation . ) |
| 17 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 18 | He dictated to her many of the hymns that are still in use by the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist — many of whose tunes are exactly the same — bar one or two notes — as the ones the real John Wesley cobbled together in the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 20 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 21 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 22 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 23 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 24 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 25 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 26 | He hooked badly off the second tee , was unplayable and took six . |
| 27 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 28 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 29 | Again , this is a complex notion in itself , so it is hardly surprising that some respondents found it difficult to reply to the questions : Has the conceptual map of your subject changed much in the last decade ? |
| 30 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |