Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam . |
| 2 | No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ . |
| 3 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 4 | Where the case is apt for a Ghosh direction , the whole test must be given not just the first part : Ravenshad [ 1990 ] Crim LR 398 ( CA ) and Brennan [ 1990 ] Crim LR 118 ( CA ) ( on handling ) . |
| 5 | He gulped down greedily the last few drops of red wine . |
| 6 | They made love a third time before falling into an exhaustion that was beyond pleasure , their naked bodies sprawled together , arms and legs tangled , and when they woke up late the next day Damian made love to her again until her eyes closed and she shuddered in hot delirium against him . |
| 7 | I woke very early the next morning . |
| 8 | Sandy played absolutely fantastically the first two days , but the greens were very strange and unkind to him . |
| 9 | Pick off just the first flush of flowers from the ever-bearing kinds . |
| 10 | The installation of the other two new cards and their spinning frames is part of a phased operation to minimise disruption but will follow on immediately the first card is completed . |
| 11 | Before embarking on what will inevitably be a huge investment , would it not be better to wait and see just how the next round of arms negotiations comes out . |
| 12 | Before embarking on what will inevitably be a huge investment , would it not be better to wait and see just how the next round of arms negotiations comes out . |
| 13 | Alexandra climbed carefully up the first side and then leaped from the top on to the grass below . |
| 14 | We can see also how the first sentence has a second phrase using syncopation , which is a distinct change from the first phrase . |
| 15 | It was more a punishment than a kiss and she hated it , but she hated even more the first faint stirring in her blood . |
| 16 | I remember so well the last time our secretions commingled . |
| 17 | On the same day that Bathsheba arrived home , Mr Boldwood went to apologize to her for speaking so violently the last time he had seen her . |
| 18 | I set out early the next morning and travelled all day . |
| 19 | You heard well enough the first time . ’ |
| 20 | London was the place to prove himself as a choreographer , and he spent almost exactly the next third of his life there , fifteen years , doing that and much more besides . |
| 21 | that 's where he used to go out there the first one started in December . |
| 22 | Many of Wordsworth 's poems are attempts to show how we associate ideas ( see ‘ Hartley ’ , p. 80 ) , and he often points out how the second idea — ‘ the echo of the voice ’ in this case — is blended with the first idea on which our conscious attention is fixed — ‘ my eye / Was fixed upon the glowing Sky ’ . |
| 23 | but the third letter has got to be an S , as it turns out now the third letter 's got to be an S |
| 24 | That influence will be needed tonight as Wrexham bid to climb further up the third division table . |
| 25 | ‘ They called the police , but were able to fly back home the next day , as planned . |
| 26 | Note too how the first sentence rests on D ( part of the dominant chord ) , thus inviting continuation , while the second ends on C , confirming finality . |
| 27 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 28 | Yes we used to A whole lot would come here and I 'll go somewhere else the next day you know , we used to help one another to sheep shearing . |
| 29 | Mother went out early the next morning , and it was nearly seven o'clock before she came home . |
| 30 | If you carry on I 'll show you the situation worsens as we 've attempted Carrying on on the seventh floor , all the , all the other gangs are still employed working in the previous area . |