Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 2 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 3 | In the winter of 1976 , Rod Johnstone , who started out as a schoolteacher before taking up naval architecture , designed and built the first J/24 in his garage . |
| 4 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 5 | So you have to try and identify the next players and the best way of integrating that new group . |
| 6 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 7 | The intimations were unmistakable , and I telephoned Jackie to come and administer the last rites ( so to speak ) . |
| 8 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 9 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 10 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
| 11 | The new measures supplemented and renewed the first , interim austerity package introduced in December 1989 [ see p. 37194 ] , most of whose provisions were due to expire on July 1 . |
| 12 | They have noted that many of the men who built and ran the Fifth Republic cut their teeth in the RPF . |
| 13 | Let's wait and see the first one ah ? |
| 14 | He staggered and fell the last few feet and finally collapsed on the mud and grass of the bank . |
| 15 | Mountain View , California-based portable communications devices developer Eo Inc duly announced its partnership with AT&T Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Marubeni Corp to design , build and market the first generation of what it is calling personal communicators . |
| 16 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 17 | Suzie Chamfer demanded during the animated dormitory chatter that characterised the first night of the new term at the larger boarding school to which at least half their class at Great Stourford had progressed en bloc . |
| 18 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 19 | The computer keyboard also has a Delete key to delete letters in front of the cursor , a Backspace key to delete letters behind the cursor , a set of Cursor Movement keys that move the cursor up or down one line or side to side one space , a set of Function keys that perform preset functions with a single keypress and an Escape key that is normally used to reverse or undo the last action . |
| 20 | BOUTS of nausea and vomiting that accompany the first months of pregnancy may be good news for the mother , according to two new theories on the cause of morning sickness . |
| 21 | Air operations in Hawaii were put under the direction of Lt Col Art Wildern ( USAF , ret ) who hired and trained the second crew of pilots who were to do the flying in Hawaii . |
| 22 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 23 | London agency Media & Design Associates has written and produced the first issue of a special twice-a-year publication for Taylor Woodrow pension fund members in the wake of the Robert Maxwell scandal . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal held that both claims could not succeed and disallowed the first ( that being the smaller claim ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Budgie ’ was Palace 's extrovert and excellent goalkeeper through the period in which Palace sought and grasped the 2nd Division championship in 1978–79 and a stable security in Division One the following year . |
| 26 | Originally named the Laboratory Equipment Corporation LECO is based in St Joseph , Michigan , USA and started life by developing and introducing the first volumetric carbon determinator for the iron and steel industry . |
| 27 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 28 | It should give the country the capability to design and build the next generation of Australian communications satellites as well as to win lucrative overseas contracts . |
| 29 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 30 | The development of a separate manpower policy agency seems to have been carried out with all these motives in minds The University Grants Committee has been seen as serving the second and third purposes . |