Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Llanelli held to a draw , Neath took the opportunity to leapfrog into third place with a 27–15 home win over South Wales Police . |
| 2 | The win takes Scotland above Portugal and into joint second place with Italy in the battle to qualify for next year 's finals in the US . |
| 3 | I edged along the curtain in the upstream direction of the shut door and by hauling my way up the links at the side managed to scramble round the boathouse wall and up out of the water to roll at last onto the grassy bank . |
| 4 | The advantage of the telephone is that it is a two-way communication which gives you the chance to assess at first hand ( or ear ) why your account is not being paid . |
| 5 | MIDDLESBROUGH suffered a major blow to their promotion hopes when they spurned the chance to climb into third place . |
| 6 | Otherwise , the repetition on your part will not motivate the dog to react at first , and soon this can become an habitual problem . |
| 7 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 8 | From some depth of courage and purpose she who had been silent so long was finding the will to speak at last . |
| 9 | For the losers it 's back to the mirror to prepare for next year . |
| 10 | Trust the Mirror to get in first — we always keep you right in the picture . |
| 11 | DOUBLE Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt was reinstated as an amateur yesterday and given the go-ahead to compete in next year 's Winter Olympics . |
| 12 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 13 | Indeed I have my breakfast at dinner-time , somewhere around 11.30 a.m. that 's the time for the main meal of the day in farming circles since it is normal for those who live from the land to rise at first light . |
| 14 | She was driven by a need to get in first , her mood openly aggressive . |
| 15 | Had Robinson 's throw from mid-on hit the stumps , there would have been no need to call on third umpire Chris Balderstone and TV replays for a verdict . |
| 16 | Hartlepool have a chance to move into seventh place when they play Stockport County at Victoria Ground tonight . |
| 17 | Or miles to go , a good book , a comfy seat and no decisions to make except first sitting or second , beef or sole ( both freshly-cooked ) , red or white ? |
| 18 | A meeting of the Committee of the Rambling Club , an essay or a report to prepare for next day , some knotty maths problems that seemed to have no solution , a party in the Junior Common Room , notes from a lecture on particle physics which needed tidying up ( Dr Glib talked so fast ! ) . |
| 19 | Although he did not begin painting seriously until 1911 , Gris had thus been in a position to watch at first hand the birth and development of Picasso 's Cubism . |
| 20 | ‘ It would be a treat to get into third gear in this fucking town , ’ he said . |
| 21 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 22 | Habsburg dynasty Dr Otto von Habsburg , son of the last King-Emperor of Hungary , has politely turned down an offer to stand in next month 's Hungarian presidential election as the candidate of the Smallholders party . |
| 23 | Michael Caine 's cockney Alfie ( foreign to American ears ) won him his first nomination in 1966 , but he had to play an American to win at last , twenty years later , in Hannah and Her Sisters . |