Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Penelope mounted further to the third floor where she and the other lodger had their rooms , she was relieved to hear the limpid notes of a recorder playing ‘ Brother James 's Air ’ . |
| 2 | She was not squeamish about using her considerable social influence in support of her son Winston ; she pressed his writing on publishers , sought for favourable reviewers , and appealed directly to the third Marquess of Salisbury , then prime minister , to permit him to join the expedition to the Sudan under Sir H. Herbert Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , q.v . ) . |
| 3 | They began as small , elitist institutions that owed much to the 19th century concept of the German university . |
| 4 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 5 | if money for investment is made payable to the firm , it should be returned to the client to be made payable to the correct third party or , if this is not possible due to extreme circumstances , the cheque should be endorsed and forwarded immediately to the third party |
| 6 | But Doyle listened right to the last word of the News . |
| 7 | Everyone enjoyed themselves and looked forward to the next battle of the brains . |
| 8 | In her second play , untitled and completed only to the third act , Leapor finds scope within the historical events surrounding the short reign of the Saxon King Edwy or Eadwig ( 955–959 ) again to study the problems of marriage and sexual violence . |