Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 2 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |
| 3 | Restrictions on silviculture in the tropics are most striking in the area of soil properties ; for example , the pisolites of parts of West Africa are some 10 m deep with no obvious horizons and , although trees grow well at first , they later collapse and the removal of the forest leads to desolation resembling a gravel pit . |
| 4 | And it 'll find the next So skip again for ninth . |
| 5 | When flowering is over clean containers and put away until next year , or pot up with winter pansies . |
| 6 | Maybe she 'd win the pools or walk off with first prize in the national lottery ! |
| 7 | Though deluged with entries who says people do n't read about the election ? we welcome more before next Thursday to Election Diary , The Northern Echo , Priestgate , Darlington DL1 1NF . |
| 8 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 9 | Ireland 's Darren Clarke , Sweden 's Robert Karlsson and the veteran Argentine Vicente Fernandez all shot 67 , while Gilford birdied the last two holes to return 70 and hang on to second place — only two strokes behind his England Dunhill colleague . |
| 10 | As I approach Jamie 's house , I glance up at the-first floor . |
| 11 | His bosses , the directors , say they look forward to next year , when they expect new business to increase . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've had three months of investigation and it 's important that we now look forward to next year 's National when we are expecting large crowds . ’ |
| 13 | But Sunday 's win should erase those ghosts , as well as make up for last year 's defeat to France in the final in Lyon . |
| 14 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 15 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 16 | but you know we , we might feel cold when we get in at first , oh we have n't been in long before it 's warm is n't it ? |
| 17 | So there is some choice and ah , yeah , we perhaps need to think about whether you know better from last year whether it 's still a half term . |
| 18 | Do n't worry if your compression joints leak slightly at first — this happens to professional plumbers too . |
| 19 | be getting a result if you stepped in with another four phones , new lines , you 'd have the use of these four lines for three month , to generate business before you get out with first phone bill on them , right so that you could drop er the lines here if you wanted , at er , at the end of the day , it does n't matter whether you 've got one line or whether you 've got a hundred lines |
| 20 | ‘ Let's hope we get back before first light this time . ’ |
| 21 | change back to first colour and knit about 10 rows . |
| 22 | Feed sparingly at first . |
| 23 | Continue forward across second field to stile ahead , then forward on track ( which soon runs between hedges ) , eventually descending to pass car park on your left and Pecorama on your right , track has now become a road on outskirts of Beer . |
| 24 | Turn right on road and turn right at next junction then left , signposted Louth . |
| 25 | Turn Right at next roundabout ( A ) and join A23 from sliproad . |
| 26 | We have an extremely flexible timetable in S6 and we are always pleased to welcome pupils from other schools who join the 130 or more Heriot pupils who stay on to Sixth Year . |
| 27 | A regular exhibitor at the event he is president for the 22nd annual show and will also be showing his pedigree Wiltshire Horn Sheep as a preliminary run before they go on to next month 's Royal Show , at Stoneleigh . |
| 28 | Also expected to score league points which go down to tenth place , are Pat Hutton and Stuart Smith ( both Penicuik RT ) and the promoting club 's fast junior , Lachie Badenoch . |
| 29 | Do n't just listen and then go away without first checking that your interpretation of what the person has said is accurate . |
| 30 | I do n't think I 've got anything more from this morning so , only a bit about policy fees which I believe are now scheduled go up in first of August . |