Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so the first thing we , as a crime prevention officer , we , well I look at anyway , is surrounding areas of a house that ca n't be seen from the road . |
| 2 | Right so the first thing you do if we 're dealing with a hundred and fifty . |
| 3 | Right so the next thing we 'll do is |
| 4 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 5 | Prior to the change in the law the relevant income tax provisions only referred to " income " ( ie there was only effectively the first limb ) and the House of Lords in Perry v Astor held that " income " following Colquhoun v Brooks [ 1889 ] 14 AC 493 , ( 1889 ) 2 TC 490 meant " any income chargeable to a tax under the British Finance Act of the year " . |
| 6 | The All Blacks won a sterner Third Test against the World side , almost went base-over-apex in the First Test against Ireland , then came back so powerfully the Second Test was a 59–6 mis-match . |
| 7 | For perhaps only the second time since the Turner Prize was inaugurated in 1984 , the jury , comprising Nicholas Serota , Director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude Beaud , Director of the Cartier Foundation , Robert Hopper , Director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Time Out 's art critic , Sarah Kent , and collector and director of CNN 's European operations , Howard Karshan , has compiled a genuinely balanced short-list of artists whose work will be shown in an exhibition opening at the Tate Gallery at the beginning of this month ( 4–29 November ) and from whom a winner will be announced at a formal dinner taking place at the museum on 24 November . |
| 8 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 9 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 10 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 11 | It is apparently only the second exhibition on her life and work . |
| 12 | So perhaps the first thing to say is that , as with the story , there is a considerable art of the pacing of humour . |
| 13 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 14 | ‘ Much better the last couple of days . ’ |
| 15 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 16 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 17 | Less so the next morning when , his stomach seriously disordered and his head aching , John-William had started to wonder why a man like Goldsborough who was " gentry " through and through despite his odd goings-on at the Fleece , should be making revolutionary suggestions as to how the " squires ' government might be brought down . |
| 18 | I thought that this morning when I saw you again , and I want you to know I do n't think we should leave it so long the next time . ’ |
| 19 | We wo n't leave it so long the next time |
| 20 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 21 | Cooking and eating go together , so naturally the next step is to decide where and in what sort of style you are going to serve and eat meals . |
| 22 | Molly announces , holding out her glass for what is obviously not the first refill . |
| 23 | Leeds did great to win it last year , but it will be much harder the second time around . |
| 24 | We can detect how much further the second boy has gone in overall grasp and in sticking to his convictions about what he has read — and in his desire to bring his own generalisations about sport into the dialogue . |
| 25 | After rising and saying his prayers , the poet should retire to his study and … engage in the study of the ancillary sciences : lexicography , metrics and so forth The second quarter of the day should be devoted to poetic composition … |
| 26 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 27 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 28 | She paused halfway up the second flight to hear whether anyone was following , but all she heard was the sound of a door below opening and the voices of Joseph , Maurin and Barbara Coleman going into the flat . |
| 29 | Kings Quest VI is far and beyond the best of the series so far the first volumes were original and set the standards for all to follow . |
| 30 | So here the first number , in this case nineteen eighty nine , is the date that the site was dug . |