Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is better to use only one harp unless there is something really helpful and effective for the second harp to do . |
| 2 | Section A is fairly similar to the intro , but going through this section for the second time do n't forget to use the alternative fill in bar 5 . |
| 3 | HAVING sex for the first time does n't frighten 15 year old Amber Armitage . |
| 4 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 5 | Not for the first time did it occur to Meryl that there was an obscure kind of convenience in having a schizophrenic on the premises . |
| 6 | Not for the first time did she wonder where and when that waiting British Armada would set out with the purpose of liberating Europe . |
| 7 | We stopped in Backnong for the last time to do our souvenir shopping then at lunch time started to make our way to Trier , the most westerly town in Germany . |
| 8 | The fact that Guatemala in 1954 had ‘ returned from Communism ’ ( and was regarded by the United States as the first country to do so ) increased Soviet reluctance to be perceived to be experiencing another ‘ loss ’ in the area ( even though they did not accept that Castro was embarking on a road towards Communism ) . |
| 9 | There is little theory-loading in any of these plates , and none of them attempt to catch the bird in motion as the ‘ field guides ’ of the twentieth century do . |
| 10 | During the latter part of the eighteenth century several handsome houses were built overlooking the river there and the name became ‘ Strand on Green ’ , and not until the early part of the nineteenth century did the present name of ‘ Strand-on-the-Green ’ become formally adopted . |
| 11 | Only after Addington 's budgets of the first decade of the nineteenth century did direct taxation , albeit in a much altered form , begin to recover its share . |
| 12 | So far as mining is concerned , the long colliery shifts of the nineteenth century do not seem to have been usual in the eighteenth . |
| 13 | At the end of the fifth day do not delay . |
| 14 | His father , Frederick Koch , was one of the first Westerners to do business with Stalin , having patented the cracking process , to convert crude oil into petroleum . |
| 15 | The antecedent and consequent of the first sentence do not , in this context , function to express disapproval either of polygamists or of Solomon . |
| 16 | It was a matter of considerable comment that only after the setback of the first ballot did Mrs Thatcher herself take the step of meeting backbenchers in the Commons tea room . |
| 17 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 18 | And it 's So one of the first thing to do is to get your axes marked so that when you 're putting stuff in , you know which is which . |
| 19 | He [ sic ] knows something which the party of the second part does not know and has to admit that he does not know … |
| 20 | In the 1987 general election only 1.4% of the second votes did not count , having been given to minute and therefore eliminated parties . |
| 21 | And in particular , the last governments of the Fourth Republic did not want a repetition of the EDC episode . |
| 22 | Thus although items from the second half of the 20th Century did appear to suffer from less serious deterioration than those from its first half ( with no post-1950 material being considered ‘ Fragile ’ ) , of all defective 20th Century publications noted , 7% were ‘ Fragile ’ , whereas the comparable figure for 19th Century publications was only 2% , and even if the proportion of defective items placed in the category of least deterioration — ‘ Poor ’ — was smaller for 19th Century items than for those of the 20th Century ( 76% as opposed to 80% ) , the difference was extremely slight . |
| 23 | Only in the latter half of the last century did these ideas begin to emerge and it was recognized that embryos developed by epigenesis . |
| 24 | So the development of the Viennese piano building tradition at the end of the 18th century did not follow a single route . |
| 25 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 26 | Only in the first two minutes of the third round did we see Eubank looking anything like his best performances against Michael Watson and Nigel Benn . |
| 27 | Perkin 's placing of the critical moment in the last quarter of the eighteenth century does not mean that a new demand for manufactured goods suddenly made an impact on the British economy around the time of the American Revolution . |
| 28 | The latter half of the sixteenth century does , arguably , represent a significant turning point in the development of the hierarchy : until that time one can argue that its evolution had been largely functional , that the nature of the hierarchy ensured that those who reached the highest learned offices would have received a thorough grounding in the necessary sciences through both their education and their teaching , and practical training in the application of the law through holding several important kadiliks ; but that after that time , that is , from toward the end of the sixteenth century , the elaboration of the hierarchy was much more negative from the point of view both of learning and of good administration , being essentially an attempt to provide jobs and honours for an ever-increasing number of those seeking both . |
| 29 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 30 | The writers of the next generation did the same . |