Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb base] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw Harry stretch out on a lounger in the fragrant shade at the far end of the terrace and toss the last four inches of his Romeo y Julieta into the hedge . |
| 2 | Begin with the first page of the transcript and count the first 50 utterances which fulfil the following conditions : |
| 3 | We 're holding an arm-wrestling and spinach-risotto evening at the Cock and Pullet in Poplar and we 'd very much like you to do a twenty-five minute cabaret and cut the first slice of a twelve-metre onion quiche , baked by MOLES , you know , Mothers of Optometrists Lesbians , Esperantists and Social Security Clerks . ’ |
| 4 | At Great Bedwyn we stop for welcome break and cheer the first of the singles through . |
| 5 | An own goal by Nicky Summerbee and two from Lee Philpott won the match and helped make Cambridge into a promotion force and lead the second division for two months . |
| 6 | His name too , with all its starkness and its distinctly masculine aura , fitted him exactly — though this man possessed none of the innocence and wonder the first Adam must have had in his Garden of Eden . |
| 7 | What do you do — put your ideas to one side and spend the next few months feeling deflated ; or do you take out a Midland Personal Loan now and enjoy the benefits of your purchase , paying the money back in easy stages ? |
| 8 | they would terminate the contract and refund the first instalment . |
| 9 | At the weekend , modern day Roundheads and Cavaliers from all over the country , saddled up to re-enact the skirmish and commerate the 350th anniversary of the war and at times the battle took on a definite air of reality although noone was seriously hurt . |
| 10 | Get some print that stays on the paper , you bastards ( invest in laser printing and join the 20th Century ) |
| 11 | To illustrate the way word-processors use embedded symbols , type a paragraph of text and indent the first line with a single tab . |
| 12 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 13 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 14 | Toss the first ball in your right hand towards your left one and as it peaks throw the ball in the left hand towards the right and catch the first ball in your left . |
| 15 | Spread a little buttercream over the centre of the marzipan circle and place the second cake on top of this . |
| 16 | She led a losing diamond from dummy , on which she discarded the winning heart from the closed hand , and West was forced to ruff and concede the last two tricks . |
| 17 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 18 | The best he could do was to save a match point and take the third game . |
| 19 | This week Interex , Hewlett-Packard Co 's user group , will be having its annual meeting in sultry New Orleans and HP is expected to take it into its confidence and announce the first implementation of the PA-RISC 7100 chip in a new single-processor non-Unix business system dubbed the HP 3000 Series 987 . |
| 20 | Jog back to where you started the hill and do the next repeat . |
| 21 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 22 | They work as if they must get rich by the evening and die the next day . |
| 23 | b ) Bring out the seven prongs of the tool and take the last seven stitches three stitches in ; return the three empty needles to NMP , ( as in K4 , K2 tog three times ) and knit six rows . |
| 24 | Most of his staff are currently on strike because they have n't been paid for two months , so Soliz is going personally to open the new group and give the first lesson . |
| 25 | Named the Black Hawks , the team will fly five of the L39s in the airshow routine and use the sixth as a spare . |
| 26 | She was determined that it was n't he who had affected her appetite either , and went down to dinner that night and ate quite a substantial meal , only to return to her room and spend the next hour again having trouble ousting the wretched man . |
| 27 | If your project standards allow , you may change the 2nd parameter to TRUE to enable users to use the auto DC assessment facility and/or change the 3rd parameter to TRUE to grant public access to DCs . |
| 28 | The key to the success of such releases , though , is always that you do not have to pay for them with significant amounts of guilt or regret the next morning . |
| 29 | Fish began to haul themselves out of water and become the first back-boned creatures to colonise the land . |
| 30 | We let the grating fall back and throw the last branch down into the darkness ; it catches on the branches stuck near the top of the shaft . |