Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 2 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 3 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 4 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 5 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 6 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 7 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 8 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 9 | They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half . |
| 10 | In 1223 Richard was once again in the retinue of William Marshal and followed him over the next few years into Wales , Ireland , and Brittany . |
| 11 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 12 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 13 | Harry withdrew inch by inch along the dim passageway to the end , where he could have the wall on two sides of him , and flattened himself into the last shallow embrasure , beneath the last curved corbel . |
| 14 | Maisie grabbed his arm and steered him towards the next gallery . |
| 15 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 16 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 17 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 18 | Dr Groome had hooked Susan up to Yggdrasil and floated her in the third tank . |
| 19 | With a quick reflex action he caught the tompaw , a short stout wooden handle with a steel claw set in the end , and thumped it into the first deal of the day . |
| 20 | albacete have lost one and won one since the last time i mailed . |
| 21 | I doubt he gave her a second thought , once he 'd pulled his trousers back on and ushered her into the first available taxi . |
| 22 | And left it on the second hole . |
| 23 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 24 | The Scots , who led 12-3 overnight , needed only one more point to secure overall victory and clinched it in the first match to finish yesterday when Jim Muir beat Mike Marsden in straight sets . |
| 25 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 26 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 27 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 28 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |