Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
2 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
3 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
4 | The Welshman sent Critchley over within three minutes of the second half and was in support to take Tait 's pass and touch down in the 56th minute , with Holliday 's goal setting up an aborbing final quarter . |
5 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
6 | So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ? |
7 | • REM sleep can ‘ squeeze ’ deep sleep out of the first part of sleep towards the middle of it . |
8 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
9 | Whether they break through to the next level will make interesting watching : the forthcoming exhibition and David Sylvester 's catalogue raisonné may prove influential . |
10 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
11 | Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe . |
12 | If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin . |
13 | As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear . |
14 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |
15 | You do n't turn the page over , just look over to the next column |
16 | Emma took us all on a bumpy buggy ride over to the second stage , until it was confiscated by security . |
17 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
18 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
19 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
20 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
21 | Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’ |
22 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
23 | They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks . |
24 | ALTHOUGH 63 per cent of new mothers breastfeed their babies , 15 per cent give up in the first week after birth , according to a survey by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
25 | DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side . |
26 | Sometimes I drop out for the first verse of songs and let Keith do rhythm and then I come back in for the second verse ; it brings the level of intensity right up . |
27 | The instruction then operates as follows : Load A and L into internal processor registers Perform the comparison with the word at A If the comparison is successful , terminate the instruction Otherwise , decrement L and increment A If L is zero , terminate the instruction Otherwise , jump back to the second line |
28 | And look out for the first Birthday File coming up soon ! |
29 | ‘ So if you want to hear the most wretched sound ever invented , just look out for the next album … ! ’ |
30 | Look back over the last week and count the number of " risk-decisions " you or your team took . |