Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 2 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 3 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 4 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 5 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 6 | Thousands of Taiwanese rallied yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of an anti-government riot and demand the release of dissidents involved in the 1979 incident . |
| 7 | Rather than revel in the recovery in house prices , therefore , a bold government would act now to prevent the next house-price boom , and thereby help make the longed-for economic recovery more durable . |
| 8 | A similar exercise will also be carried out to fix the first review date in outstanding mandatory life sentence cases where this has not already been done . |
| 9 | Council officials in Hartlepool are urging local people to come forward to fill the last few places on an outward bounds course in the Lake District . |
| 10 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 11 | Like most romances involving ten year olds , it was destined not to last the fifth grade . |
| 12 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
| 13 | He fell heavily when 4–1 down in the first set , needed several minutes of treatment before deciding to carry on , lost the first set , but then came back to win the next two — all the time nursing his knee with an ice-pack between games . |
| 14 | The depletion of stocks of minerals and fossil fuel is done mainly to satisfy the First World 's boundless greed for gadgetry , and to encourage the Third World to follow its degrading example . |
| 15 | Faded blue velvet curtains , worn in places and with dust lying along the folds , were pushed back to allow the last of the light to enter the room . |
| 16 | The dependentistas argued that the global capitalist system , largely but not exclusively through transnational corporations ( TNCs ) , operated actively to underdevelop the Third World and that no genuine development was possible as long as this system survived . |
| 17 | THE South African government , the African National Congress and its rival , the Inkatha Freedom Party , agreed yesterday to hold the first multi-party talks since all-race democracy negotiations broke down last May . |
| 18 | The principles for establishing lists of goals for fat reduction are similar to those for sugar reduction , namely , do the things that are easiest first ; use lots of small , easy steps ; spend about a week trying to behave according to that week 's goal ( and with all preceding ones being maintained ) before going on to add the next goal to your repertoire . |
| 19 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 20 | But Rachel hated not to have the last word . |
| 21 | The Princes of Caledor strove unsuccessfully to wake the last dragons . |
| 22 | Tony and Nathan have made tea and soup and we have some before going out to feed the first batch of dogs . |
| 23 | He caught a train from Paddington to Reading , arrived there to find the last train to Goring and Streatley had gone , and , after a considerable wait , got a minicab . |
| 24 | To add insult to injury , Dykstra was beaten again twice in the dying seconds — Hateley turning in a cross from McCall and , with the goalkeeper in obvious distress , Mikhailichenko stealing in to score the fourth . |
| 25 | ‘ They all rushed off to do the next scene . |
| 26 | Before it had a chance to reach Emily 's neat pairing , however , it caught his own second bowl a solid crack , sending both to join the first , out of play . |
| 27 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 28 | Then at 9.30 am. , when his secretary brings in his mail , he 'll decide how to spend the next hour and the rest of the day . |
| 29 | They dropped their kedge anchor 200 yards offshore and settled down to await the first wave of assault craft . |
| 30 | They had to run constantly to complete the first tapping of their three hundred and fifty trees in the five hours before ten o'clock . |