Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 2 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 3 | TEXAN oil and gas exploration minnow Aviva Petroleum sank back into the red last year with an $8.7m loss , against 1990 's $537,000 profit , on revenue down from $12.2m to $9.3m . |
| 4 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 5 | Holywood got through to the final last year so they will be hoping for another good run this year . |
| 6 | Like Denny , Eamon McAuley came in from the cold last night for a good win ( pts 6 ) over Manchester visitor Russell Davidson . |
| 7 | Well erm he came back on the twenty fourth , no , never mind that we we 've been to-ing and fro-ing have Asian Associates and I and |
| 8 | It roared back into the black last year to the tune of £6.8 million , compared with taxable losses in 1991 of £1.2 million . |
| 9 | The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements . |
| 10 | Despite the opportunities opened out from the late eighteenth century by an expanding grain trade , a marked increase in the land available , and a steady rise in labour and money dues extracted from the peasantry , the nobility found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 11 | As for the records being destroyed , it is true nothing now predates 1465 , but early records certainly existed up until the early seventeenth century . |
| 12 | I think he got out of the flat first and not out of debt . |
| 13 | But Valli then dropped back to third when club secretary and veteran runner Brian took over on the penultimate third stage . |
| 14 | The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War . |
| 15 | Audience figures fell off during the weaker second series ( 21 episodes ) , but TV had already received its enema , and things would never be the same again . |
| 16 | Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern . |
| 17 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 18 | This system , known as devşirme , began in the fifteenth century and died out in the late seventeenth century . |