Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comfort , to me , means warmth , and whenever I change homes the first thing I do is make it as warm as possible . |
| 2 | Vowing undying love one moment , hurling accustions the next . |
| 3 | In addition , the BLA argued that unlimited liability generated claims by encouraging unjustified risk-taking by solicitors , clients and lenders alike , and also made solicitors the first target for loss recovery when the fault occurred . |
| 4 | Dismissing suggestions the First Division is sub-standard this season and that Newcastle 's 11-point lead is a false reflection of their quality , he said : ‘ Ask Leeds whether it 's rubbish . ’ |
| 5 | The forms that are issued will give householders the first indication of the valuation band their property has been placed in and which will be used to calculate the level of council tax . |
| 6 | Following the success of the Flat meeting at Doncaster in July , the home of National Hunt racing hosts the first jumps card to be staged on a Sunday . |
| 7 | The evidence is clear , too , that in mining districts the first part of the nineteenth century saw a serious erosion of holidays . |
| 8 | IAN WRIGHT and Andy Gray hardly exchanged pleasantries the first time they met . |
| 9 | During college based sessions the first part of the morning is spent on a whole group presentation ; the second in a workshop/seminar situation . |
| 10 | I 'm still eating in a guilty , uncomfortable way : huge amounts one day , then fasting or taking laxatives the next . |
| 11 | ( If you took singing lessons the first instruction would be to open your mouth , and the same applies to speech . ) |
| 12 | She waited all day for the Kurd to return , but he failed to do so ; and when she made enquiries the next morning she was told that he had left the town within minutes of conducting her to the priest 's house . |
| 13 | They resumed hostilities the next day . |
| 14 | The EC 's long-awaited eco-labelling scheme has come into operation , with dishwashers and washing machines the first products to be included . |
| 15 | Yes , the same thing is like erm , if I do , the rest of the shop for the rest of the d , that day , but I do goods the next night , erm , that shop 's okay for the next day , and it 's , it 's only like on a one day basis . |
| 16 | You had loads the first time round . |
| 17 | But perhaps a more interesting effect — and the one that might offer scientists the first chance to test Kulsrud 's work experimentally — is the ability to suppress D-D reactions by polarising the deuterons so that all the ions line up parallel to the magnetic field . |
| 18 | But there are anyway other anecdotes which for what they are worth trace the origin of political professionalism to dates earlier than Kleon : a Byzantine lexicon called the Suda , for instance , makes Pericles the first to take a written speech into court , while for Aristotle ( Cic . |