Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters . |
2 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
3 | In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change . |
4 | Turner was arrested after the first offence but released on bail and then carried out the second offence . |
5 | And though the visit could have given him an opportunity to kill his father , and then drive down the next day to discover the body , that was the one crime which every logical motive screamed against . |
6 | Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox . |
7 | In the end we decided to go to bed , and then set out the next morning just in time to catch the ship to Hamburg . |
8 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |