Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EAST Germany 's vast security police apparatus , once a fearsome state within a state , looks like becoming the next centre of Stalinist power to fall to the country 's ‘ people power ’ revolution . |
| 2 | The only injury Crawford sustained in making the second series was when he stubbed his finger while inside a wardrobe that tumbled down a flight of stairs in an episode about Frank attending an RAF reunion . |
| 3 | As they contain water , the first application may cause the grain to raise on some woods , and a light sanding is recommended before applying the second coat . |
| 4 | Her arrival , and the exclamations of admiration that greeted her , succeeded in defusing the last of the tension caused by Geoffrey 's tactless remarks . |
| 5 | Gradually beat in the eggs , one at a time , ensuring that each is thoroughly mixed before adding the next one . |
| 6 | Thank you Mr Gordon erm you stated I think in your opening , I think y your opening statement , can you confirm that the two year delay has in gaining the first flight has been in actually gaining the flight control system er certified for flight . |
| 7 | The falsificationist is committed to preferring the first . |
| 8 | So far I have been lucky in that I have never had to work at getting the next job but there may be a point when I look up and there is no opportunity around the corner . ’ |
| 9 | However , for a discount security with more than six months ( 182 days ) to maturity , the bond equivalent yield has to take into account the fact that the corresponding bond makes two coupon payments and that interest is earned by investing the first coupon . |
| 10 | the interest earned by reinvesting the first coupon payment at the rate rb for half a year , . |
| 11 | The flunkey hesitated , then responded by answering the last question first — with a figure that was nearly four times larger than the largest sum I had thought I might try asking . |
| 12 | I suggested that he might think of removing the last three syllables from his name , which he did by deed poll . |
| 13 | AN Aberdeen lecturer is being forced to choose between becoming the first Scots academic to be made redundant and putting her sister out of a job . |
| 14 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 15 | Coun Chris Abbott hopes that Langbaurgh Council 's £70,000 budget saving by disregarding the first £10 instead of the normal full pension is a misunderstanding . |
| 16 | Seventeen random numbers in the range 000 to 200 ( representing the record keys ) can be selected by choosing the first numbers within the required range occurring in a random number table . |
| 17 | The stags ' antlers are cast each year and are best left where found as they are nibbled and eaten to recycle the chemicals and nutrients needed for growing the next set , which is probably more useful than lying in the loft at home or being turned into a table lamp . |
| 18 | If she wants a three to four you got ta have the next size up . |
| 19 | Michael , you 've got ta get the last one there . |
| 20 | Though I acknowledge the need for caution in the development of counselling services and for more scientific evidence for the effectiveness of different types of counselling , this should not conflict with taking the first steps . |
| 21 | How much , can be gauged from seeing the first four entries under " D " in the index : dactylic foot , Daily Mail , Darwin , Charles , and deconstruction . |
| 22 | It is argued here that the public sector has a crucial part to play in initiating the first moves back to full employment . |
| 23 | For example , he 'll say something like , ‘ Well , I would n't wan na spend the last two minutes of my life listening to that lick ! ’ |
| 24 | should we , should we look at say the first Friday after the middle of January , something of that sort , I , I have n't got a calendar on my desk at the moment I 'm afraid , but erm |
| 25 | And it is a Scot who is credited with using the first ‘ cady ’ on the golf course , namely the Marquis of Montrose , who played on that delightful east-coast course in the 1620s and wrote in his accounts , ‘ payment of four shillings to the boy who carried my clubs ’ . |
| 26 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 27 | I had a further powerful incentive to learning the language , for SPG , the missionary society which supported me and thirty or more other missionaries in Burma , men and women , had a rule that no missionary could marry before passing the first two language examinations . |
| 28 | The Elves finally succeed in driving the last Dark Elves from northern Ulthuan and begin to sweep the northern seas clear of their ships . |
| 29 | Typically , the teacher is called upon to implement the second order realization of new ideas in the form of teaching materials rather than to consider the ideas themselves and how they key in with his own experience of teaching . |
| 30 | That the two objectives are interdependent can be demonstrated by examining the first objective . |