Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 2 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 3 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 4 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 6 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 7 | Mr R. Melbourne of Loughborough wins our first £25 award by asking you for a list of those clubs who have won the old First Division title and also played in the Fourth Division . |
| 8 | She performed with fellow West Londoners the Mighty Ethnicz on the recent Ice T tour and also appeared on the last Mantronix video . |
| 9 | We unpacked our bags , and then relaxed until the next morning . |
| 10 | Annie rang the top bell and then went to the third floor , Susan 's flat . |
| 11 | She ran along the side of the house , round the back of a stone-stilted granary and down behind the dovecot , and then darted across the last few yards to the wall . |
| 12 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 13 | Mrs Singh asked ‘ Do you have the same holiday ? ’ and then spoke for the first time about Balbinder . |
| 14 | The broad measure , M3 , grew by only 1% in the 12 months to December , and actually fell for the last three months of 1990 . |
| 15 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |
| 16 | A flight of cormorant went past the tip of the headland , low to the water but sharply silhouetted in the last , lucid moment before true dusk . |
| 17 | Graham Gooch won an important toss but then fell in the seventh over , clearly surprised to be given out caught at the wicket . |
| 18 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |