Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 2 | Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ . |
| 3 | Catriona wiped down the last of her tables and suddenly realised that the conversation around her had stopped . |
| 4 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 5 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 6 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 7 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 8 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 9 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 10 | He paused after each question , stared over our heads , then jerked out the next as if reading from a cueboard behind us . |
| 11 | Dexter drew out the second drawer with more hope . |
| 12 | The next day he drew out the last of his savings from the bank and left for Cornwall . |
| 13 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 14 | And then Jayne filled in the first day . |
| 15 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 16 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 17 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , having had far too much to drink , Clare woke up the next morning in James 's bed , saw that it was nearly nine o'clock , fled to work in her crumpled clothes but arrived late again . |
| 19 | When Mary woke up the next morning , she saw a young servant girl cleaning the fireplace . |
| 20 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 21 | Rosa too woke up the next day unsure whether she had walked in the street below in a dream , but the mud between her toes showed her that she had indeed left the house . |
| 22 | When Clare woke up the next morning , the sky was grey and the sun was not shining . |
| 23 | Woke up the next morning . |
| 24 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 25 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 26 | When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte . |
| 27 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
| 28 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 29 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 30 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |