Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation .
2 The programme of works over £10,000 to be undertaken during the periods 1st April to 30th June 1990 and 1st July to 30th September 1990 but no such work is scheduled for Juniper Green .
3 MICHAEL LAWRENCE , GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR , PRUDENTIAL CORPORATION The man from the Pru rings in the changes Last month , Hugh Collum stood down as chairman of the 100 Group after a successful two-year campaign raising its profile .
4 Better wait until the dries first .
5 But I mean once this strike is over , unless we come to proper agreement erm they know then that then it will be too late then cos there 's somebody saying then they came for the Jews first was it ?
6 But likely to be ruled out of the action is full-back Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee .
7 But likely to be ruled out of the action is fullback Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee .
8 Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first .
9 I 'll speak to the owners first but there is a possibility I might end up withdrawing Cab on Target . ’
10 ‘ I do n't know what they 'll bring to the pictures next , ’ she wheezed .
11 By 1800 a new town was built on the lowlands next to the old city .
12 Moreover he persuaded his father to agree that if the terms imposed on the rebels last summer were not acceptable to them now — as obviously they were not — then they would be granted a fresh hearing in the King 's court .
13 PREMIER John Major was ambushed by the Germans last night in a move which could force Britain off the road to European unity .
14 But the chances are you 'll be heading for the hills next weekend , and according to the Countryside Commission for Scotland , almost 100,000 of you will be doing so in Scotland !
15 She knew what he was like , how he never did anything without having thought about the repercussions first .
16 Los Angeles , California-based Tiger Media , the multimedia authoring start-up , has gone down the tubes : its venture capitalists sold off the assets last month to New Hampshire-based AimTech Inc , a PC company .
17 Those who kept up at the front got back to the barracks first , got into the showers first , got dressed first , and were ready downstairs in combat kit for our first singing lesson with Sergeant Moustaine .
18 ‘ You 'll find pussy going on the beds next , ’ Sister Dew went on .
19 Er , I should like to the names next month and I hope you 'll all support us because the numbers are going down and if we do n't get sufficient numbers , it 'll have to cancelled like the Torbay one .
20 The brown trout season opened on the rivers last Sunday and Thornaby AA enjoyed a tremendous response as 74 anglers competed for the Trout Cup on the Tees between Croft and Hurworth .
21 Do you think you actually look at the words first or the picture first ?
22 The churches , slow to see that change must come , failed to take control of developments , which passed into the hands first of private enterprise , then of local authorities , under the general direction of Parliament .
23 It was confirmed this week that Ulster stars David Humphreys , Gary Longwell and Innes Gray were all staying with the students next season , with Humphreys as captain .
24 General Norman Schwarzkopf , or Stormin' Norman as he became known , retired from the forces last year .
25 A TENTATIVE economic recovery began in the shops last month , when retail sales showed their first year-on-year rise since last September and their strongest increase since May 1992 , the month after the last general election , the Confederation of British Industry claimed yesterday .
26 THE smallest crowd of the season at McDiarmid Park last night saw St Johnstone recover from a backs-to-the-wall first half to take two vital points from Falkirk .
27 I read in the papers last week benzene , the benzene is used in unleaded petrol .
28 The Rover 200 will be joined in the showrooms next month by the first new Land Rover model for 20 years , the Discovery , aimed at the sector of the four-wheel drive market dominated by Japanese manufacturers .
29 It is I believe a result of that situation that reference to the correct , that is to say the continuation of washing-over , was not known in the documents first submitted by way of representation to various planning .
30 In addition , the Bill would be introduced in the Lords first — and while the society had ‘ clout ’ with MPs , peers were less assailable , she said .
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