Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When Macmillan had first been planning his flight north on 11 May , he had only intended to visit Eighth Army and 13 Corps and then to return to Caserta " early " on 13th . |
2 | The last stretch is down a narrow lane bordered by woods and lined with horse boxes , cars and spectators , the latter all striving to catch first sight of the leading riders coming at full gallop . |
3 | He was all set to go last spring , and he ran away . |
4 | I was in a chain , and I only managed to complete last week . |
5 | Still , it was the sort of match that we 'd have only managed to draw last season , i.e. all over them but could n't put the ball in the onion net . |
6 | For a country the size of England , such a tiny league would be a waste of resources and Cooke , presumably , would not want to attend second division games , even to view players such as Nottingham 's Martin Pepper , a flanker of England quality . |
7 | The is partly due to the length of time such illumination takes — there Books of Hours were never conceived as ephemera — and partly because calligraphers today are not seeking to satisfy 15th century tastes . |
8 | IBM also no longer intends to support NeXT Computer Inc 's NeXTstep Release 2 on AIX/6000 or AIX PS/2 machines . |
9 | Following a brief chat with my fellow editorial staffers concerning such unimportant matters as choosing a writer or an illustrator appropriate to the piece , I will go to see Brian , our in-house number-cruncher and say something like , ‘ Hello Brian , ’ ( I always like to get meetings off to an informal and uncontroversial start ) ‘ I 'd just like to discuss next week 's cover story . ’ |
10 | Indeed the inclusion of accession and ratification clauses suggests that the parties did not intend to confer third party benefits , but instead desired full commitment to the treaty . |
11 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |
12 | Shares of the £11 billion company , privatised in 1986 , had already started to slide last night and the market is bracing itself for big falls today . |
13 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
14 | Indeed global trade liberalization soon had to take second place to the search for regional solutions — notably in Europe . |
15 | Outside , the Campaign for Labour Representation in Northern Ireland was already planning to return next year , spending around £250 a head on travel and accommodation and hoping for an unforeseen breakthrough . |
16 | but you , I do n't know which we , you just have to say next time you see her oh which reading test do you use and you can work out , how , what , you know , I 've got a reading test somewhere I 'll see if I can find it for you , just show you |
17 | Although he has usually had to play second fiddle to Jackson , he is a super athlete in his own right , having won silver medals at the European championships ( 4x100 metres ) and Commonwealth Games in 1990 . |
18 | As the terms of the game allowed anyone out without scoring to return to bat after the team were all out , Colin did so and still failed to score second time around ! |
19 | It is also used to dress second degree burns ( blisters without skin loss ) once the blisters have broken leaving an open sore ( see Cuts and Scrapes ) . |
20 | They have also worked to rally Third World opinion , especially in the United Nations , against various island dependencies which remain in the American and Western orbit . |
21 | Fiona Burgess was placed second with Jenny Dwyer improving on past form to gain third position . |
22 | The grynd continues , but these days the whale meat is no longer needed for food , and islanders are often having to empty last year 's whale meat from the freezer to make way for the fresh catch . |
23 | They wo n't want to play next week , and the following week comes the home match against Wakefield , in which they had hoped to celebrate promotion to National Division One . |
24 | ‘ You would n't want to fail first time out , would you ? ’ |
25 | A good time was had by all and who knows , next year the theme could be Television Adverts , when he will surely expect to get first prize as the TV Captain Chaos look alike . |
26 | ‘ May I remind you that you will frequently have to take second place to the demands of my work ? ’ |
27 | Is that alright , cos then you 've gone away with any ideas you 've got from now which is probably none , er and then it also means that I do n't have to spend next week worrying in case we get to Friday and Thursday and you 're still not sure what you 're doing . |
28 | ‘ The trouble is , ’ she said , ‘ that you are inevitably in the position of people being able to say , ‘ It 's all right for you , you do n't have to live next door to those punks and weirdos . ’ |
29 | Talus , the little Texas company with the order for 2,500 NeXT workstations from Russian president Boris Yeltsin ( UX No 381 ) , says the way the order 's written it does n't have to provide NeXT machines , merely computers running NeXTStep : it estimates the value of the order at $25m , but not in cold cash . |
30 | Used to be called Brian and then it was that David fellow , anyway I said well I should n't bother to vote last time , anyway David n erm David Dennis said you will I 'll take you there so he took me |