Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 2 | Apparently many members are voted in only the second or third time round and he too could have waited quietly to be elected next time . |
| 3 | Startlingly bold as this idea is , the arguments for it were initially contained in just the first thirty-three short sections of the Principles . |
| 4 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 5 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 6 | The pie committee saw all their stipulations were met but attempts to stop it were made until almost the last minute . |
| 7 | In corporate finance you may get a call at 4pm and have to prepare papers for a crucial business meeting at 9am the next morning . |
| 8 | The Marine Mammals Protection Act was passed in New Zealand in 1978 , and reflected a growing public awareness of the need to provide for the conservation of the country 's marine mammals , which had been ruthlessly slaughtered during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 9 | The world mile record holder , racing for only the second time since recovering from the groin injury which threatened to ruin his Olympic hopes , ran the third stage for Britain in the 4 x 1500 metres relay . |
| 10 | With the Arkansas governor a Rhodes Scholar at the university in 1968-69 looking all set for victory , it meant the US would become at least the 10th nation this century to boast a leader taught at the city of the dreaming spires . |
| 11 | I think we shall have to look at just the last two years . ’ |
| 12 | The staircase stood in a garden overlooked by both the first floor and a ground-floor flat let to the plaintiffs . |
| 13 | There was improvement in all Commercial lines when compared with both the first and the final quarters of 1992 . |
| 14 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 15 | She said he had left the house in the forenoon of 24 October and been covered in blood when he returned at 3am the next day . |
| 16 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |
| 17 | Chatam , running for only the second time this season , went a length up as the pair jumped the last together but Mark Dwyer , riding with hands and heels , forced Jodami a head in front at the post . |
| 18 | A monthly on the Third World from a big publishing stable had just had the plug pulled after only the sixth issue . |
| 19 | The new bus garage at Thornton Heath was sufficiently advanced in construction for the bus service to start from there the next morning , using London Transport 's then standard RT type buses . |
| 20 | Sumitomo Metal Industries , Japan 's third-largest steel company , has abandoned at least the first phase of a big refinancing scheme . |
| 21 | With the passing of time , Greek silver coins tended to have a wider diameter and lesser thickness , and a glance at the general appearance of a coin will enable it to be assigned to either the fifth to fourth centuries or the second to first centuries BC ( compare figs. 9 and 6 ) . |
| 22 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |
| 23 | It then declined , dropping to below the third magnitude in 1940 . |
| 24 | Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won . |
| 25 | Another interesting mid-price reissue comes from Sony Classical and features the late Leonard Bernstein , not only performing Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic , but also talking about how the first movement evolved from the composer 's sketches . |
| 26 | The pigeon had still not passed on when the last fly leaf sputtered out an hour or more later . |
| 27 | All that remains of probably the first country house in England to be modelled on a Palladian villa . |
| 28 | Subsequently borrowings were repaid in both the third and fourth quarters , from a combination of a reduction in liquid resources and the measures taken to return to a positive cash flow . |
| 29 | It was a stretched Telecaster , using the same ‘ slab ’ ash body with no contouring whatsoever , while its elongated top horn extended to above the twelfth fret and offered good balance for an instrument of its considerable weight . |
| 30 | and and when er erm come over here the last time er , I I told him a a that he say , Doctor , you see , told what he said , he is a clever old boy were n't he ? |