Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was so distressed and shocked that he did n't play in the first two Tests , batted himself at No. 8 in the third and fourth matches , and withdrew from the fifth . |
| 32 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 33 | It was mentioned in Domesday Book , badly affected by the Black Death in 1350 , and depopulated in the fifteenth century . |
| 34 | He turned right and went half-way along the corridor and knocked at the fourth door . |
| 35 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 36 | The plane was painted and repainted over the next 20 years with each change of ownership or brand of gasoline . |
| 37 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 38 | A dreadful second shot from the perfect position in the middle of the 10th fairway had to be retrieved with a deft bunker shot ; he was deep in the trees at the 11th , where he took five , and bunkered at the 12th , though again at no cost to him . |
| 39 | These issues have been well raised and aired over the last few months I would like to now raise another issue that I do n't think has been publicized enough that is the issue of under-provision in old age . |
| 40 | This was known as the PC-5A and flew for the first time in July 1939 . |
| 41 | It 's jazz and soul as a street thing , a club thing , ’ he says , ‘ which is where both those forms of music started and thrived in the first place . ’ |
| 42 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 43 | Sister was then transferred to Wythenshawe , and worked for the last 13 years on the chaplaincy team of Wythenshawe Hospital . |
| 44 | Doreen glanced down , and blushed for the first time in a long while . |
| 45 | The offensive was launched on 18 June but was deeply unpopular with much of the rank and file and collapsed in the first week of July . |
| 46 | Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily , as the volumes came to hand , and started on the second half . |
| 47 | She finished the sandwich and started on the second , eating hungrily . |
| 48 | I went through the first pile , which seemed mainly to be stock orders from golf professionals around the country , and started on the next tray . |
| 49 | The headmaster got up and started towards the next gallery . |
| 50 | He pulled out a bundle and looked at the first address , but he did n't recognise it . |
| 51 | Dada took the book from her and looked at the first page . |
| 52 | She snapped shut the diary and looked at the next piece of paper . |
| 53 | If I pressed my eye flat to the ground and looked into the next garden , the big bushes there with thick tall stems and flat leaves seemed part of a mysterious tropical forest . |
| 54 | He unseated his rider once and fell at the 7th in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 55 | If you had been making the movie on film , the term cut would have been taken literally because each piece of cine film is physically cut and spliced onto the next . |
| 56 | He swung one foot out , to the next joist , then put out one hand and felt for the next rafter ; he transferred his weight carefully . |
| 57 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 58 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 59 | O. coriacea superficially resembles Ophiotrema alberti from which it differs by the lack of distinct spinelets on the disk ; the shape of the adoral shields which are straight and do not have an indented proximal edge while those of Ophiotrema alberti are more wing-like and indented over the second oral tentacle pore ; the shape of the oral shields which are arrow shaped not round and almost hemispherical as in some specimens of Ophiotrema and by the absence of tentacle scales in Ophiotoma . |
| 60 | I do n't know if he left the King 's Troop and went into the First er Regiment Royal Artillery , but erm I went to Germany and of course we just lost contact . |