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

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1 There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance .
2 The first lunch which was held at Greig 's restaurant , London SW13 ( tel ; ) was a great success , so do come along and join the next one .
3 For all our child protection inter-agency training we have got a standing agreement with private counsellors that if any professionals raise an issue that was personal to them , they could go away and have the first 12 counselling sessions free . ’
4 ‘ I would hate for any of you to go away and say the first quarter is an indication and multiply that by four , ’ Reuter quotes finance director Dudley Eustace as saying .
5 Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then .
6 ‘ There were times when I just wanted to give up and catch the next train home , ’ said Bill , ‘ but it was the thought of all the people at home praying for us and wishing us well that kept us going . ’
7 ‘ I 've now arranged to fly out and spend the last two weeks of his working trip with him as a kind of nosing-around holiday while I 'm about it , but the first two weeks … ’
8 It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing .
9 There have been many theories accounting for the prevalence of North , North East and East facing galleries , including a favourite one that they were built so that thrifty spinners might sit out and catch the last of the waning daylight .
10 If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again .
11 At the beginning of the year the Treasury set out the basis upon which departments were to roll forward and revise the last round of spending plans .
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