Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For you the tape measure did n't shrink — it just followed the wonkyness of the two-dimensional surface as it hollowed out into the third dimension . |
| 2 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 3 | One goal was good enough … it came midway through the second half … skipper Andy Melville ran it in and ran off to celebrate … |
| 4 | It turned right at the next street . |
| 5 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 6 | The house is built on an ‘ L ’ shape , and though it evolved gradually over the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the whole gives a uniquely harmonious appearance , which must stem from the use all those years ago of essentially local materials which can not but blend . |
| 7 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 8 | When I published this group , with an enormous amount of help from Philip Corder ( Webster , 1947 ) , I was confident that it fell well into the fourth century . |
| 9 | It grew out of the first demonstrations , towards the end of October 1989 , and was composed of women and men who were outraged at the filth and the toxins in the air , water and soil . |
| 10 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 11 | It was an important step towards the ideal of interchangeable parts , and it went well with the nineteenth century transforming of craft activity into modern industry , remotely controlled by paper in the form of plans and drawings , prepared by people in a distant office and perhaps in a distant town . |
| 12 | It took only until the next Wednesday when he beat me . |
| 13 | USL also says UC Berkeley rebuffed every proposal it put forward over the last few months to resolve the dispute without recourse to litigation . |
| 14 | Nor would it come as a total shock to discover that the world pulls out of the next slump the same way it did out of the last one , with a catastrophic world war . ’ |
| 15 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |
| 16 | It slid helplessly into the next parked car , slammed into its side . |
| 17 | Whilst some very local cult developed quickly , it spread only in the mid-fifteenth century , from which time come all the extant depictions of him ( complete with diabolical captive ) , in groups from Norfolk ( Cawston , Suffield , Gateley ) , Suffolk ( St Gregory 's , Sudbury , and possibly Bury St Edmunds Abbey ) and Devon ( Hennock , Alphington , and Wolborough ) ; two texts of a lengthy invocation to him ; and the prosecution ( in 1448 ) of the then vicar of North Marston for counterfeiting his head from an exhumed skull . |