Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 2 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 3 | She let off a salvo of three guns , spaced so that the first ball fell well in front of the Genoese ship . |
| 4 | Passengers were still climbing off while the second load of passengers were scrambling on . |
| 5 | Those who believe , or rather , know that the dialectic in its predetermined movement requires the appropriation , by wage-earners and as the outcome of their victory in the class war , of the means of production , and know that it is historically right to be on the side of that movement , will know also that the first is superior . |
| 6 | In early April the excitement built up as the first shoals of mackerel were expected . |
| 7 | If the policy was successful , its effects would be picked up when the next analysis was undertaken , and projected into the future . |
| 8 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 9 | Walking out after the first act was becoming an addiction . |
| 10 | She went on excitedly to explain how her canoe would be arriving in a week or two and she would then telephone the harbour master at Sharpness to find out when the next big bore was due . |
| 11 | I wanted to come today cos the last |
| 12 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 13 | The most rapid decline in employment among elderly people has come about since the Second World War , with the proportion of men over 65 in employment falling from 30 per cent to 10 per cent between 1951 and 1981 , although , because of a rise in married women 's employment , the proportion of the female population over 60 in employment was about the same in 1981 ( 8 per cent ) as in 1951 . |
| 14 | Tell him that you do love him , but you will have very little time and energy to show that love while you are forced to worry about where the next meal is coming from . |
| 15 | Yes , there 's the relief of knowing you do n't have to worry about where the next question is coming from , but that 's simply replaced by the worry of where the first answer is coming from . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll never have to worry about where the next assignment 's coming from . ’ |
| 17 | He put her through a variety of exercises , his demonstration making each one appear easier than the last . |
| 18 | On April 12 two Fireflies on patrol attacked a formation of Japanese bombers heading for Okinawa , four of the bombers being shot down and the fifth badly damaged . |
| 19 | The Act stated that other schemes could be formed from the schedule of twelve by advancing or postponing the day of payment of the first instalment , provided that the first payment was not made sooner than the eleventh day , and that not more than one penny per pound was added to the interest for every thirteen days of such postponement . |
| 20 | The offer , from ABC , came shortly after the last episode was screened and would have required him to make twenty-four programmes a year for a possible five years . |
| 21 | Now an estimated 1,000 traditionalist vicars may break away when the first woman is ordained . |
| 22 | However , the protest must be made promptly before the next round of an elimination match is fought . |
| 23 | The group has met once since the last EEB AGM and another meeting is scheduled for June 9th . |
| 24 | But then they dried up and the last seven of his 31 caps came as substitute . |
| 25 | One fourth-year student at C explained to me that several experiments conducted in the lab in the first term of the year could not be written up until the second term , after the theory had been presented in the lecture course , which obviously meant a tremendous backlog of work to catch up on . |
| 26 | No options may be granted later than the tenth anniversary of the Scheme . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 28 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 29 | the last six observations of it has , right , the first six observations , sorry the er the first twenty odd observations are real , right , that they have n't been made up but the last six observations have been made up , right , to er to illustrate structural change . |
| 30 | She changed in the lorry with Martina , a sorrel mare with four white socks , who was never let out until the last moment , as she was driven so crazy by the flies . |