Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 2 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 3 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 6 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 7 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 8 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 9 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 10 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 11 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 12 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 13 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 18 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 19 | ‘ A whole city partying — and transported back into the eighteenth century ! ’ |
| 20 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 23 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 24 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 25 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 26 | This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment . |
| 27 | Twelve one deals with the recommendation for economic developments and tourism sub-committee , er the er projects , and twelve two with the er , capital budget report from the director of financial services , which is in the budget book , I refer to the recommendation on these items from the budget review sub-committee , which is in their minutes , at agenda item twenty-two one , at the bottom of the third page and going over to the fourth , erm , a number of paragraphs . |
| 28 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 29 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 30 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |