Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam . |
| 2 | He gulped down greedily the last few drops of red wine . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pick off just the first flush of flowers from the ever-bearing kinds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I set out early the next morning and travelled all day . |
| 7 | that 's where he used to go out there the first one started in December . |
| 8 | but the third letter has got to be an S , as it turns out now the third letter 's got to be an S |
| 9 | ‘ They called the police , but were able to fly back home the next day , as planned . |
| 10 | Mother went out early the next morning , and it was nearly seven o'clock before she came home . |
| 11 | This is because , however often an experiment comes out right , you can never be sure that it will come out right the next time , and so you can never be sure that your hypothesis is right . |
| 12 | ‘ Matador has been two and three tenths ( of a knot ) over every boat here ’ , said Dennis Conner , summing up both the last regatta of the series — the Moët & Chandon Grand Prix in St Thomas , Virgin Islands — and the two previous regattas , in Newport ( RI ) and Miami . |
| 13 | Overnight , the fighting calmed down a little but it picked up again the next morning and raged on throughout the day . |