Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm still eating in a guilty , uncomfortable way : huge amounts one day , then fasting or taking laxatives the next . |
| 2 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 3 | Amtrak deals with about 12,000 parcels every day , and guarantees delivery the next morning . |
| 4 | I went back and told Lilian the second twin , a boy , had died because the cord was round its neck . |
| 5 | Pope John Paul II paid a three-day visit ( his fourth ) to Poland on Aug. 13-16 , celebrating mass in Krakow on Aug 13 and paying tribute the next day in his home town of Wadowice to the town 's pre-war Jewish community , many of whom died in the nearby concentration camp at Auschwitz . |
| 6 | The EC 's long-awaited eco-labelling scheme has come into operation , with dishwashers and washing machines the first products to be included . |
| 7 | Mike Atherton looked in good touch again until missing a sweep off Such and falling lbw the first of four victims for the England off-spinner . |
| 8 | And come October the eleventh , they wo n't know any more than we know now . ’ |
| 9 | When using ABC the first thing to do is : |