Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then turned back onto Sky Sports only to catch the last 5 minutes or so . |
| 2 | The child is required to memorise the next lesson in the centrally-prepared text-book , sufficiently to pass the next weekly , monthly or yearly test . |
| 3 | Few of them were old enough to remember the first Great Famine of the 1840s , when Father Cavanagh had worked tirelessly to help the starving . |
| 4 | IN December , 1943 , the men working feverishly to create the first American atomic bomb sent a team of ‘ spooks ’ to Naples . |
| 5 | At least Speed made an appearance towards the end of the game — maybe he 'll be fit enough to play the next whole game . |
| 6 | At least Speed made an appearance towards the end of the game — maybe he 'll be fit enough to play the next whole game . |
| 7 | Others , however , probably burrowed underground , surviving long enough to become the first true mammals . |
| 8 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 9 | THE South African government , the African National Congress and its rival , the Inkatha Freedom Party , agreed yesterday to hold the first multi-party talks since all-race democracy negotiations broke down last May . |
| 10 | Her schedule required her to tour the Tented Village and be in the Royal Box by 3.30 p.m. to watch the last two hours of play . |
| 11 | He was also to obtain the first formal recognition from the pope of the right of the crown to nominate holders of major benefices , before the kings of either France or Spain ; and he indulged grandiose dreams of annexing continental territories . |
| 12 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 13 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 14 | Hutton , later to become the first professional captain of England and knighted in 1956 , joined the ranks of those who had to embody the hopes and expectations of an England creaking under the weight of its industrial and imperial past , but whose sense of destiny was still quite strong . |
| 15 | Rather than revel in the recovery in house prices , therefore , a bold government would act now to prevent the next house-price boom , and thereby help make the longed-for economic recovery more durable . |
| 16 | Lean your body forwards to squeeze the last few centimetres of range out of the punch . |
| 17 | Council officials in Hartlepool are urging local people to come forward to fill the last few places on an outward bounds course in the Lake District . |
| 18 | Downes thumped the table with both fists with such ferocity that WPC Wright transferred her shorthand-book to her black-stockinged knee , and failed completely to register the next three words that Downes had thundered . |