Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] with the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar .
2 I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour .
3 And another individual goal ; in the sixty fifth minute , he also made an opening for erm Jason Allen erm and Mark Hurtling to score the fifth and Mark Hurtling came along with the sixth .
4 He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London .
5 Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases .
6 As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) .
7 When I came out with the next platitude ( ‘ How are you ? ’ ) they lifted and turned towards me .
8 Reward came immediately with the first of 21 caps .
9 She looked out of the window and saw the brown strip of plough , and then the line of willows marking the river , and then the green slopes rising , dotted now with the first sheep of the year .
10 He used three of them for Tessa , the legs of one pair tying her ankles to the chair legs , her hands pulled behind and tied together with the second pair .
11 But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull .
12 We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one .
13 On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully .
14 It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking .
15 It was an important step towards the ideal of interchangeable parts , and it went well with the nineteenth century transforming of craft activity into modern industry , remotely controlled by paper in the form of plans and drawings , prepared by people in a distant office and perhaps in a distant town .
16 Assuming , as I am , the correctness of the Croydon decision , there can be no doubt that the appeal committee dealt correctly with the first stage .
17 Northampton romped away with the Fourth Division championship in 1986-87 and whenever Reed had an off-day his manager , Graham Carr , loved to scoff : ‘ Rambo ?
18 Northampton romped away with the Fourth Division championship in 1986-87 and whenever Reed had an off-day his manager , Graham Carr , loved to scoff : ‘ Rambo ?
19 He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play .
20 He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play .
21 Richard Illingworth chipped in with the next wicket — Stephenson trapped leg before sweeping .
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