Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first and smallest , the 600-strong Resettlement Agency , got off the ground last June . |
| 2 | So she made for the orchard first . |
| 3 | Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times . |
| 4 | A 25-YEAR-OLD man appeared at Linlithgow Sheriff Court yesterday charged with the murder last month of a retired civil servant , Matt Fleming , 54 , of Barclay Way , Livingston . |
| 5 | I sank into the chair next to him and groaned . |
| 6 | In 1929 Piscator invited from the Bauhaus first Oskar Schlemmer and then Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as scene designers . |
| 7 | A VOLCANO that erupted in the Philippines last week , killing more than 60 people , exploded again yesterday in blasts of superheated steam , smoke and ash . |
| 8 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 9 | A NEW row erupted around the Government last night after it signalled it would go slow on new laws to outlaw ticket touts . |
| 10 | Timber is the fastest growing import underlined by the arrival last month of the largest timber carrier ever to dock at Sharpness . |
| 11 | At the first rehearsal he played through the Brahms Second and changed nothing . |
| 12 | We have been without food before , when the chimney came through the roof last year . ’ |
| 13 | But I mean once this strike is over , unless we come to proper agreement erm they know then that then it will be too late then cos there 's somebody saying then they came for the Jews first was it ? |
| 14 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is full-back Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 15 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is fullback Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 16 | It was scrap iron that came into the yard first , and bits and pieces of lead . |
| 17 | The case , which concerned three small islands in the Torres Strait , came before the court last year . |
| 18 | He even played in the club second fifteen as a prop in preference to being at lock for the first although , when the senior side was in relegation danger , he acceded to the club selectors ' request to revert to lock to help them to safety . |
| 19 | MR MAJOR appealed to the nation last night not to turn its back on 13 years of Conservative rule as the latest opinion polls showed the Tories narrowing the gap with Labour but still facing the prospect of losing power . |
| 20 | Such disillusion and frustration came to the fore last Saturday . |
| 21 | During the curious lull that followed , in which nobody seemed to get on or off , Miss Labrooy leaned forward in her seat and said : ‘ Do you know why I decided to help you when you came to the surgery last week , Mr Barnett ? |
| 22 | Before he came to the department last month , Peckham was director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation in London , which coordinates numerous research institutes . |
| 23 | She came to the dining-room first , a vast , almost medieval room with heavy furniture set on terracotta floor tiles . |
| 24 | We came across the line first , and that 's all that counts . |
| 25 | Back at the car , the two tarts still slouched against the wall next to the railway embankment . |
| 26 | As she hesitated he nodded towards the chair next to his . |
| 27 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 28 | Chris Horn and his CCG staff of some 110 joined in the celebration last December , when the UK and French tunnel engineers broke through to link up the Channel Tunnel Marine Service Tunnel . |
| 29 | The double-sided nature of the sixteen-year-old boy who arrived in the History Eighth at St. Paul 's among a group of conventionally well-educated youths two years his senior — who seemed to him grimly earnest and thinking only of work and success and speaking in more re fined voices than he was used to — is clearly shown by Thomas 's two attempts at writing fiction , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ( 1913 ) dedicated to ‘ My Father and my Mother ’ with its epigraph from Hardy , ‘ But now — O never again ’ , and an unpublished work of ‘ Fiction ’ ( his title ) which he abandoned in the early summer of 1914 . |
| 30 | As with most initiatives , however , strength flowed from the centre first . |