Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 In the 1946 cohort the less able ( measured at age 11 ) and women with no qualifications start having babies earlier and are also more likely to go on to have third and higher order births and have them at shorter intervals .
2 So if this stands for this year 's output at a hundred percent fifty percent of it has to be added on to give next year 's .
3 His head bent swiftly to kiss first one shoulder and then the other .
4 The hall into which she stepped was not a hall at all , but a large and very high room , with doors leading off it in most directions , and it was so full of unexpected things that she found it hard to know where to look first .
5 The rabbit runs to a hole you have already ferreted and blocked up and is immediately mesmerised and does n't know where to go next .
6 Or I did n't know where to go next .
7 Craftsmen with an eye to the future like Benjamin would be quite likely to make fairly late marriages — there would be a lot of saving up to do first , and the better established one was , the better the chances of attracting a lady of some substance .
8 However he came back to take fourth behind David Tougher .
9 With increased spending on advertising and a tough domestic market , Highland Distilleries will do well to match last year 's £15.1m interim and shareholders will have little to complain about , especially if the dividend rises in line with market expectations to 1.55p .
10 More satisfactory measures of total fertility can be based on estimates of the chances of women going on to have first , second , third etc. births ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) .
11 The route continues for a short way beside the beck , crossing it and turning right to head first slightly north-east and then north-west until a small beck is crossed , and then another by the Cortina Bridge — named after a Ford Cortina crashed here in one of the Lombard RAC rallies .
12 But the company 's faltering US subsidiary , which was hauled back to profit last year , saw revenues slump 17% , resulting in £1.4m operating losses .
13 Chief Justice Fortescue slid in like a spider , scuttling across to sit next to the Duke .
14 There 's such an array of good things to see in Switzerland , that it 's hard deciding where to go first .
15 We need some way of deciding where to go next .
16 2.2 Deciding where to go next
17 Deciding where to go next .
18 Instead , she clutched tightly to the handle of the suitcase Mrs Hollidaye had lent her and followed the nurse along broad passages to a bright room where a group of children , all with suitcases and well wrapped in outdoor clothing , stood huddled like refugees from a foreign land waiting to be told where to go next .
19 Sheikh Mohammed 's Bridal Toast , who finished powerfully to take second place could have more scope to progress as a Derby contender .
20 TAILSPIN : Looked likely to be unplaced in Double Dutch 's race at Ascot , but finished powerfully to take third place and must be followed in similar company .
21 I said just do it and I said thing is if she just ignores you I said you know not to bother next year .
22 Food was placed to sizzle on the barbecue , and was turned with the help of long utensils , and as she worked beside Silas , moving rapidly to turn first one piece and then another , Lucy became conscious of a feeling of quiet satisfaction .
23 Meanwhile Aureole had got into top gear and came through into second place , but try as he might he could never pose a threat to Pinza , who galloped on relentlessly to win by four lengths , with Pink Horse running on to take third place a length and a half further adrift and the gallant Shikampur a tired fourth .
24 On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was .
25 Bath 's Graham Withey opened the scoring but Paul Millar and Welsh Under-21 international Nathan Blake hit back to put Third Division Cardiff in the lead .
26 Smith hit back to beat last year 's beaten finalist and former champion , John Price , from Port Talbot , 6-7 , 7-2 , 5-7 , 7-2 , 7-0 .
27 Smith hit back to beat last year 's beaten finalist and former champion , John Price , from Port Talbot , 6-7 , 7-2 , 5-7 , 7-2 , 7-0 .
28 She strides around to stand next to him .
29 Hill lasted 70 laps while Allison went on to finish sixth .
30 The latter , who went on to finish eighth , veered from a true line and in turn interfered with Corn Futures .
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