Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , let there be someone around , she prayed silently , as she made the car fly the last few metres . |
| 2 | Johansson and Rumar ( 1966 ) stopped over 1,000 drivers by the roadside 710m along the road from a road sign placed there by the experimenters and asked the drivers to describe the last road sign they had seen . |
| 3 | Anthony Coburn got the commission to write the first story by a notable stroke of good fortune . |
| 4 | The increases were met by a series of strikes and protest demonstrations which , together with the threat of a national strike , led the government to withdraw the second price rise on Dec. 10 . |
| 5 | Kenny then excelled in the higher sphere and helped the Palace to gain the 2nd Division championship with the club 's best-ever defensive record , and to reach the top of the Football League in September 1979 . |
| 6 | Bill received the medal to mark the 40th anniversary of the ending of the second world war . |
| 7 | Disaster struck as Birdseye — white bearded , pipe-smoking Jack Lammiman — sailed the Atlantic to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus 's voyage of discovery . |
| 8 | The Maldives government also claimed the right to host the fifth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) instead of Sri Lanka , which as current chair had been due to do so in 1989 , but which had refused owing to the continuing presence in Sri Lanka of Indian troops [ see also p. 37357 ] . |
| 9 | They also welcomed the prospect of a unified Germany ; reaffirmed the commitment to reduce the Third World 's debt burden , specifically supporting proposals to extend repayment periods put forward by the Paris Club of creditor countries ; and reiterated the commitment to combat drug trafficking . |
| 10 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 11 | This in turn made the looking harder , but eased the pressure to accept the first thing that came along . |
| 12 | Did the steamers go the next day ? |
| 13 | Even if the courts had the resources to perform the first of these tasks , the latter involves value judgments of a kind inappropriate to the judicial function . |
| 14 | It had the right to annul the first round of voting , if it found sufficient evidence of irregularities , and to organize new elections within two months . |