Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam .
2 They made love a third time before falling into an exhaustion that was beyond pleasure , their naked bodies sprawled together , arms and legs tangled , and when they woke up late the next day Damian made love to her again until her eyes closed and she shuddered in hot delirium against him .
3 I woke very early the next morning .
4 Alexandra climbed carefully up the first side and then leaped from the top on to the grass below .
5 You heard well enough the first time . ’
6 Mother went out early the next morning , and it was nearly seven o'clock before she came home .
7 An unlikely pairing but both did quite well the second half and 's experience and talking w we thought made the back four definitely stronger than in the last few weeks .
8 She paused halfway up the second flight to hear whether anyone was following , but all she heard was the sound of a door below opening and the voices of Joseph , Maurin and Barbara Coleman going into the flat .
9 Overnight , the fighting calmed down a little but it picked up again the next morning and raged on throughout the day .
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