Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having decided to attend university the next great dilemma is to choose which one . |
| 2 | And if you happen to be too young to remember rock'n'roll the first time around , this is the perfect way to discover what all the fuss was about ! |
| 3 | 7.3 Single-mode homogeneously broadened laser The first laser , operated in 1960 by Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratory , was based on flashlamp-excited ruby . |
| 4 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 5 | Manchester City player-manager Peter Reid shares a joke with Mike Sheron yesterday , and is banking on his ace winger to hit the goals which will give City the last laugh on rivals United tomorrow . |
| 6 | The degree and meaning of prostitution was an important issue in itself ( one estimate would have made prostitution the fourth largest female occupation ) but more important , given the double standard , was the reservoir of venereal disease especially syphilis , that it was perceived as constituting , a threat particularly to the efficiency of the armed services , and it was concern over this that led to the passing of the Contagious Diseases Acts ( in 1864 , 1866 , 1869 ) . |
| 7 | They walked , he directing her , to the small drawing-room where they had had tea the first afternoon . |
| 8 | Pope John Paul II paid a three-day visit ( his fourth ) to Poland on Aug. 13-16 , celebrating mass in Krakow on Aug 13 and paying tribute the next day in his home town of Wadowice to the town 's pre-war Jewish community , many of whom died in the nearby concentration camp at Auschwitz . |
| 9 | Yeah , that 's what , that 's what she said , the woman going well I suppose that 's a bit late in the week really , she 's got school the next day ? |
| 10 | Once the party seeking to enforce the restraint has established that there is an interest meriting protection the next question is whether the restraint is reasonable between the parties . |
| 11 | We arranged lunch the next day . |
| 12 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 13 | The decision to enter could be announced any time after completed negotiations and entry could take effect the next weekend , when markets are closed . |
| 14 | And the place was ruled by an absolute monarch named y'Iggthradgipile the first , known as the God-King . |
| 15 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 16 | ‘ Aw ’ feart efter the last go . ’ |
| 17 | And there was a lot of luck in life : some people would go to jail for badger-baiting ; but if they 'd baited just the foxes they 'd like as not be having sherry the next day with the Master of the Foxhounds . |
| 18 | While Dorian was having breakfast the next morning , Basil Hallward came to see him . |
| 19 | They took me to Bangour burns unit the next morning . |
| 20 | And did he tell you we made love the next night ? |
| 21 | A repeat performance the next week punctuated by a postcard from L. showing the entire Sistine Chapel ceiling on the front , and missing the word LOVE on the back . |
| 22 | On 20th March there took place the first Founder 's Day Service at St. Mary 's Church . |
| 23 | A lot took place the next day , Tuesday , 21 March . |
| 24 | We had timed our arrival well as the local Highland Games took place the next day . |
| 25 | Evidence from Portugal shows that the killing took place the next day on the 3rd of July . |
| 26 | Amtrak deals with about 12,000 parcels every day , and guarantees delivery the next morning . |
| 27 | He scored a bagful of goals to help the club book their first passport to Europe two years ago and went on to star in their Ulster Cup winning team the next season . |
| 28 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 29 | Mike Atherton looked in good touch again until missing a sweep off Such and falling lbw the first of four victims for the England off-spinner . |
| 30 | No , you had help the last |