Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 2 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 3 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 4 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 5 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 6 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 7 | These two points will be attacked fairly directly in the next section . |
| 8 | YET he was caught completely unawares as the first recipient of the Barclay 's Eagle Trophy and a £1,000 cheque . |
| 9 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 10 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 11 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 12 | Both scored highly in the first round but the French had done so well in the next round with three landing on the line , that only the RAF stood a chance of catching them . |
| 13 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 14 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 15 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 16 | That such an interpretation , even though it deviates in important respects from Hume 's own intentions , is much less vulnerable to criticism , will be seen more clearly in the next chapter , when we analyse in greater depth the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity , and its ontological significance . |
| 17 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 18 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Thank you Mr , a point which you 've made consistently persistently for the last hour . |
| 20 | Coton twice saved almost miraculously in the first half when both Pearson and Hirst were frustrated by the woodwork as Wednesday 's mixture of pace , strength and rapid teamwork overwhelmed the visitors . |
| 21 | These were made almost certainly in the twelfth century , by Bishop Gut , founder of the cathedral , as a Latin inscription asserts , though there has been argument that they must be Gallo-Roman since the subject-matter is profane and improper for the patronage of a Christian bishop . |
| 22 | But things have turned round slightly in the last few weeks and erm the players have got themselves together and erm we 've managed to string a few results together . |
| 23 | It was excavated by Bushe-Fox in 1911–12 , and has been excavated more extensively within the last ten years by Barry Cunliffe , using the latest archaeological techniques . |
| 24 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 25 | The distinction between controlling for a prior variable and for an intervening variable is drawn more sharply in the next section . |
| 26 | Arsenal have had also apart from the first game , where I doubt coventry went looking to attack , rather than counter attack . |
| 27 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 28 | Most years it was washed up again on the next or a later tide , but this was of no consequence so long as the Scapegoat had gone . |
| 29 | Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity . |
| 30 | Thus , at Great Houghton near Barnsley Sir Edward Rhodes built a chapel c. 1650 in his own grounds and Dissenting forms of worship were used there well into the eighteenth century , but it was reported at an archbishop 's visitation in 1743 that the family had returned to the Anglican fold and ‘ This Chapel is now united to the Church of England ’ . |