Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited . |
| 2 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 3 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 4 | It is important to stress that the method of control has in fact changed quite substantially over the last few years . |
| 5 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 6 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 7 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 8 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 9 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 10 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 11 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 12 | A key point to note is that every stage of processing was able to affect the score of a reading ; thus , for example , a reading that scored more highly during the first ( semantic conflation ) phrase could later be overtaken by another which allowed easier reference resolution . |
| 13 | Boxall and Tierney came back strongly in the second game , but the Blackmoor pair pulled away at 7–5 up to take the game 15–7 . |
| 14 | City came back strongly in the second with two goals in five minutes . |
| 15 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 16 | So much happened so fast in the next few days . |
| 17 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 18 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 19 | After the last of these ( which , being the keeper 's , now stood empty ) the road degenerated into a track , and the track degenerated even more over the next mile until it was only twin ruts with grass between them . |
| 20 | This contrasts with Oxfordshire , which fared very well in the first period and very badly in the next two , and with Somerset , which had the smallest increase in the first period , followed by among the largest in each of the next two years . |
| 21 | Tony had had a 68 to Jack 's 66 , so the lead was cut to 7 , and sure enough they met up again on the 6th and 12th greens . |
| 22 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 23 | Like the salt traffic , the cattle trade that developed so strongly from the sixteenth century onwards moved along existing green lanes and trackways . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 25 | ‘ Heshang ’ , translated as ‘ River Elegy ’ was written by three intellectuals , Su Xiaokang , Xia Jun and Lu Xiang who wanted to address the question of why the Chinese civilisation , once a world leader , declined so rapidly after the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | Two fine headed goals from Paul Smith and Scott Leitch wrapped up the points in a hard-fought derby match at Central Park which saw Cowdenbeath 's Billy Herd ordered off early in the second half for a foul on Neale Cooper . |
| 27 | A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years . |
| 28 | It did n't seem to affect her performance as she finished well ahead of the next woman home , Teresa Touhy , from , London Olympiads . |
| 29 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 30 | I got out silently at the next roundabout . |