Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word ‘ thou ’ . |
| 2 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 3 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters . |
| 5 | But even then , there are massive periodic bills that come round every second generation — a major roof repair , a bit of bad luck like serious dry rot . |
| 6 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 7 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 8 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |
| 9 | Guillaume , the third Bretonnian King , defeats a large Orc army at the Battle of Armandur and drives out the last of the Orcs from northern Bretonnia . |
| 10 | In his nigh on sixty years , he had lost two fortunes and built up a third . |
| 11 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair . |
| 13 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 14 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 15 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 16 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 17 | He stretched his throat and gulped down a third of the liquid in the glass . |
| 18 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 19 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 20 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 21 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 22 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 23 | The new system will run under MS-DOS or Windows , transmits at a faster 10Mbps than its predecessor and takes up a fifth less memory space : 37Kb on a satellite , 46Kb on a server . |
| 24 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 25 | A. T. You used to accumulate this time you worked over and try and get off the last four hours when nobody was about . |
| 26 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 27 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 28 | Colour the marzipan a bright green and roll out a third ( about 225g/8oz ) on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large circle . |
| 29 | I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document . |
| 30 | Carson started to climb the stairs , passing some stacks of yellow newsprint and a bicycle which was chained to the rotting wood of the balustrade , before turning and starting up the next flight . |