Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as I used to , one cracks walnuts by banging two of the things together , and keeps the uncracked winner to go forward the next round , will one inevitably finish Christmas with the hardest nut to crack in one 's hand ? |
| 2 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 3 | She felt his warm stickiness on her tongue , and rolled it around her mouth before placing her lips over the tip of his dying penis to suck up the last few drops . |
| 4 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 5 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 6 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 7 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 8 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 9 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
| 10 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 11 | It is scientific knowledge that enables an astronomer to predict when the next eclipse of the sun will occur or a physicist to explain why the boiling-point of water is lower than normal at high altitudes . |
| 12 | Given Richardson 's concern to fill out the second volume , it may be assumed that very few of Mary Leapor 's works escaped publication . |
| 13 | COLCHESTER 'S quest to become only the second club to complete the non-League double continues today , with a 6,000-plus crowd expected at Layer Road for the Vauxhall FA Trophy semi-final clash with Macclesfield . |
| 14 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 15 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 16 | ‘ We wo n't be in a hurry to get away the next time , will we ? |
| 17 | They were both of them talking in these high and ceremonious terms , Cadfael suspected , in order to smooth away the first sore moments , and give Sub-Prior Herluin time to master his chagrin , and achieve a graceful retreat . |
| 18 | I hope Aldus manage to find a way to speed up the next version so that we can all enjoy IntelliDraw , irrespective of class of machine . |
| 19 | Ask the customer to call back the next day , when the contents of the till will have been checked . |
| 20 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 21 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 22 | On the darkened half-landing Frankie rubbed his face to wipe away the last of his tears . |