Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 11 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 12 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A. T. You used to accumulate this time you worked over and try and get off the last four hours when nobody was about . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | IBM has paid out $3.63 in dividends so far this year , and cutting out the fourth quarter payout altogether would save it a very welcome $680m or so . |
| 24 | With a sigh , and a glance of regret at the clear , bright day outside , he settled down in his chair and took up the first of the tomes . |
| 25 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 26 | OLDHAM boss Joe Royle is backing his old Norwich City pals to stay the course and pull off the first Premier League title . |
| 27 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 28 | Things would deteriorate rather quickly , for Alberto would return to his hotel in the evening with a sculpture eight to twelve inches tall under his arm and come back the next day with a piece no more than three or four inches high … |
| 29 | I guess he must have seen him go in sometime late , and come out the next morning . ’ |
| 30 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |