Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 3 | Make a second list of other pieces you think you would like when you can afford them , say over the next five years or so . |
| 4 | So what thoughts will be going through your mind when you send out the last Grand National runner ? |
| 5 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 6 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 7 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 8 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 9 | Whatever the outcome , the liaison needs of the Branch Committee can not be ignored and so I hope over the next three years that this can be improved to enable a transition through which active liaison is maintained . |
| 10 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 11 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 12 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 13 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 14 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 15 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 16 | Such knowledge will be the basis of the advice we give in the next chapter for promoting adjustment after a time-zone transition . |
| 17 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 18 | Let's say the next letter is e ( i.e. candidate string be ) — look down the 5th of the 26 pointers from the ‘ b ’ node to see if it is set , and so on , until the end of the candidate string is reached . |
| 19 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 20 | See why when you 've done them , finish off the last one then . |
| 21 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 22 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 23 | In a fifth instance , given in ex.5d , the cellos , again in the tenor clef , have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses , in bar 383 , give out the fourth of the five themes , with strokes in pure accentual meaning , as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour . |
| 24 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 25 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 26 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |
| 27 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 28 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 29 | Er we pay pick up the second the second stage which is the balance of the first year 's payment at er about six to eight week 's later through this banker 's order . |
| 30 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |