Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1	The outside-half thereby became only the second player , after Neil Bennett in the 1970s , to score 300 points in a season for Bedford .
2	He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs .
3	PETER EBDON yesterday became only the third player to compile two 147 breaks in professional snooker tournaments .
4	They always knew where the next offensive was because they were making maps for them .
5	I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings .
6	Probably wondered why the last two anniversaries was when I was in college .
7	But then he double bogeyed both the fifth and sixth to finish in 77 and join Darcy on 145 .
8	On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters .
9	A picture in TODAY revealed how the first truck ran straight over Adam 's Renault 25 , crushing the roof like a cardboard box .
10	Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets .
11	He indirectly set up the first try for Kenny Hooks , and his catching and powerful driving off the tail of the line out kept Collegians on the back foot .
12	He paused after each question , stared over our heads , then jerked out the next as if reading from a cueboard behind us .
13	Turner was arrested after the first offence but released on bail and then carried out the second offence .
14	‘ But why did n't the first guest get the poisoned beef ? ’
15	Rosa too woke up the next day unsure whether she had walked in the street below in a dream , but the mud between her toes showed her that she had indeed left the house .
16	I never knew where the second half of the clasp had gone .

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