Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outside-half thereby became only the second player , after Neil Bennett in the 1970s , to score 300 points in a season for Bedford . |
| 2 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 3 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 4 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 5 | It will only change when the psychology behind it has changed ; and this psychology is based on two die-hard principles which together constitute almost the last vestiges of his own Indian-ness . |
| 6 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |
| 7 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 9 | To her right , as her eyes adjusted to the faint lifting of the darkness , she could just make out the first steps of the spiral tower staircase . |
| 10 | We have already seen recently the first recommendations from the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) , which has proposed a developmental model for the core areas of English , mathematics and science , as well as a timescale for the introduction of the assessment programme . |
| 11 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 12 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 13 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
| 14 | Now six months behind in getting version one out the door , SAG has just pulled together the first snapshot of technologies which the specification will use . |
| 15 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 16 | In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change . |
| 17 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 18 | PETER EBDON yesterday became only the third player to compile two 147 breaks in professional snooker tournaments . |
| 19 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 20 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 21 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 22 | However , some way or other , it was always washed out the next day and back to normal . ’ |
| 23 | ’ Any audible signal probably took the form of one stroke per bar : Rousseau and Meude-Monpas agreed that French practice , in whatever context , was to tap out the down-beat only ; the Italians always tapped out the first two beats , if there were three or four beats per bar . |
| 24 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
| 25 | They always knew where the next offensive was because they were making maps for them . |
| 26 | Rapidly gulping down the first drink ( or starting on spirits before changing to beer or wine ) may be indicative of craving for the " feel " of alcohol . |
| 27 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 28 | He would have a lot more wired down the next day . |
| 29 | This is a real time saver , because it automatically plays back the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning you to record mode ready to take the next shot . |
| 30 | And the company also rolled out the second generation of its fault-tolerant Redundant Array of Inexpensive Systems environment , which it claims extends the RAID redundant disk array to a higher level . |