Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 2 | By the way , how did Pam get to know perhaps the second most powerful man on earth ? |
| 3 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 4 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 5 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 6 | Often books will have a list of different places ; the convention is to choose only the first . |
| 7 | They were both of them talking in these high and ceremonious terms , Cadfael suspected , in order to smooth away the first sore moments , and give Sub-Prior Herluin time to master his chagrin , and achieve a graceful retreat . |
| 8 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 9 | Sit with your feet and legs apart — do not over-extend the distance — it defeats the purpose of the exercise and you will find you wo n't be able to walk properly the next day ! |
| 10 | On the darkened half-landing Frankie rubbed his face to wipe away the last of his tears . |
| 11 | But remove them carefully with tissues , and use a non-alcoholic gentle freshener on cotton wool as a ‘ rinse ’ to wipe away the last traces . |
| 12 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 13 | Ballyclare restored their lead in the 55th minute when promising Adrian Moore broke clear on the right and crossed for James Beattie to tap home the second goal . |
| 14 | It was decided to include mainly the fourth year pupils that each school defined as being below average in attainment in mathematics , that is , the lowest 50 per cent of pupils rounded up to a complete set . |
| 15 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 16 | Using what they had discovered from their visit to Bourbourg and official sources , Helen and Brian Attwell were able to piece together the last moments of Beaufort I L4508 . |
| 17 | ‘ We are trying to trace everyone who was at the party to try to piece together the last hours of his life . ’ |
| 18 | So the inquiry is by no means cut and dried and they 're now trying to piece together the last hours of the dead woman 's life . |
| 19 | They 're now desperatly trying to piece together the last few hours of her life . |
| 20 | As long as I ensured that she was in peak physical condition , it was n't too difficult to get her to fly further the next time . |
| 21 | The result was we arrived in Hong Kong a day late , and quite late in the evening , and our journey to China proper was due to start early the next morning . |
| 22 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 23 | To mention only the first ‘ trope ’ , there are great differences between animals , in the manner of their birth , their way of life , their physical constitution , and so on . |
| 24 | ENGLAND 'S number one , grandmaster Nigel Short from West Hampstead , is poised to score only the second victory of his career over former world champion Anatoly Karpov in their World Chess Championship semifinal match at Linares , Spain . |
| 25 | Almost all the ladies silently decided to go downtown the next morning and buy a copy of The Cheaper Sex . |
| 26 | ‘ We wo n't be in a hurry to get away the next time , will we ? |
| 27 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 28 | It was n't easy , but I did manage to get practically the last two available tickets . |
| 29 | But you never managed to stay there the first day . |
| 30 | If , as I used to , one cracks walnuts by banging two of the things together , and keeps the uncracked winner to go forward the next round , will one inevitably finish Christmas with the hardest nut to crack in one 's hand ? |