Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
| 2 | For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World . |
| 3 | This impressive linear earthwork running east-west is reckoned to be a division between the lands of Mercia to the north and Wessex to the south , and probably dates from the sixth or seventh century . |
| 4 | It should be noted that the Netherlands continues to become more important as an outlet for Scottish manufactured goods and now ranks as the fourth largest market having overtaken Italy . |
| 5 | Lisa is eighteen and now lives on the nineteenth floor of a block of London flats with her nine-month-old daughter . |
| 6 | The register POINTER is incremented and therefore points to the next table value . |