Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They paused to stare at a cistern hanging on the wall next to a wash basin , the rest of the house having disappeared . |
| 2 | ‘ And are n't I the one forever telling people to find out the facts first ? |
| 3 | We would not have known it was here , unless we had carried out the exercise last night . |
| 4 | In tha has n't the outhouse next door ? |
| 5 | She filled in the columns next to Veronica 's name , and stared thoughtfully at the piece of paper . |
| 6 | Opting to track down the garage first , Fabia crossed her fingers , and decided to enlist the help of the pleasant man on Reception . |
| 7 | They cut off the electricity last week . |
| 8 | When they found her , on an estate in Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent another £68,000 — snapping up the house next door . |
| 9 | You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week . |
| 10 | Now I may not remember always the make first glance off unless I look at it . |
| 11 | You will be able to tell whether you have had a tenant when you open up the box next spring , and you may be able to hear the occupant enjoying the garden if you listen out after dark . |
| 12 | Treasury spokesman Alan Beith told the Tories : ‘ Go , but clear up the mess first . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Now , it 's perfectly possible that he did discover Nicola was having an affair a couple of weeks ago but only threw out the photos last night . |
| 14 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 15 | Coventry entertain Pontypridd in one of their last fixtures before the All Blacks ' coach Alex Wyllie takes over the Midlands Second Division team for six weeks from Tony Hunt . |
| 16 | Huckerby , a worried-looking , balding man , had a responsible position which basically involved overseeing editorial expenditure and running the paper day to day , but was best known for fussing round the office collecting old coffee cups and switching off the lights last thing at night . |
| 17 | But Dr Danie Craven , the executive president of the SARU , brushed aside the threat last night . |
| 18 | You blow up the tower first . |
| 19 | Then it got flooded because people had ripped out the pipes next door , which was empty too . " |
| 20 | ‘ You are probably right but , honest , when I checked out the beach last month the waves were only two feet high ! ’ |
| 21 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 22 | You have to build up the excitement first . |
| 23 | On the way back , the coachman took advantage of me , tying up the horses first . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll take out the battery first . |
| 25 | IF Frank Chamberlain , chairman elect of the Test and County Cricket Board , had any qualms about taking on the job next October , they will have been magnified by his introduction to the massed press at Lord 's yesterday , writes Mike Selvey . |
| 26 | IF Frank Chamberlain , chairman elect of the Test and County Cricket Board , had any qualms about taking on the job next October , they will have been magnified by his introduction to the massed press at Lord 's yesterday , writes Mike Selvey . |
| 27 | Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer . |
| 28 | went down the gym last night , first time in about three weeks . |
| 29 | Taylor , the stand-in Australian captain , has now had two wins and a tie since taking over the helm last week from the injured Allan Border . |
| 30 | I went up the barns last night . |