Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major life-extension programme was carried out on nearly half the Class 37 fleet , with a number of variants designed specifically for freight haulage and expected to survive into the next century . |
| 2 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 3 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 4 | True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person . |
| 5 | The availability of water is the main constraint on food production and while traditional shifting cultivation and nomadic practices are inherently conservation-oriented , the trend towards permanent cultivation and settled herding over the last 50 years has led to widespread environmental change . |
| 6 | I left the main group and started searching on the first floor at the west side of the house . |
| 7 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 8 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 9 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 10 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
| 11 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 12 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
| 13 | FORMBY always looked the better side but had to wait until the 85th minute before they gained their just reward , Paul Proctor scoring . |