Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 2 | Wallace got another in the second half to make the final score 2–0 , bring the car in future boys . |
| 3 | An art shop in the city of London sold four cotton based portfolios in the first week and doubled this in the second . |
| 4 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 5 | Between two and four million people visited each of the first three festivals , and the sites were dramatically improved — often at relatively limited net cost . |
| 6 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 7 | The erm , any other areas that I 've drew particular attention as a , as a , key issue is on the matter of er legality and doing work for other bodies , which has been an issue here which er , as you may recall we mentioned that in the last two or three years . |
| 8 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 9 | ( As announced on May 22 , this formula involved most of the second phase meetings taking place at Stormont , but with an initial second-phase meeting in London and an end-of-phase meeting in Dublin . ) |
| 10 | There was a three-putted bogey at the 10th , a pushed four-wood caused another at the 11th and a similar shot was punished at the 13th as he slipped back to level par . |
| 11 | And as often happens , United were so committed to attack , that they left the drawbridge down at the back and Lemon scored another in the last minute to make it Hereford 1 ; Chesterfield 3 . |
| 12 | We pottered around the town of Aire , situated on the banks of the River Lys , and admired some of the 17th and 18th century architecture around its quaint cobbled marketplace . |
| 13 | A fair result in the end , Leeds dominated most of the second half especially after scoring the second goal — however a number of players had poor days on the whole ( Macca , Strach , White ) and some had a downright shit day — Deane and Hodge . |
| 14 | France dominated most of the first half but the home side , one of South Africa 's weaker provinces , came back after trailing 15–3 at half-time to threaten an upset . |
| 15 | According to the version of the letter published in Panorama , owned by socialist media baron Silvio Berlusconi , Togliatti , who spent much of the Second World War in Moscow , had expressed the view that the deaths of the prisoners would help to turn the Italian people against fascism . |
| 16 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 17 | For example , at the peak of my running career in 1983 , I tore my plantar fasciitis and spent much of the next three years running at less than 100 per cent . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
| 19 | Though Park spent most of the first half pinned in their own territory , Nottingham had only two penalty goals and a Gregory dropped goal to show for their efforts . |
| 20 | ‘ As a matter of fact , Scott spent most of the first course warning me against you . |
| 21 | Larne spent most of the first half on the rack , but took a shock lead three minutes from the break when Tom McCourt grabbed his 22nd goal of the season . |
| 22 | Some lads near me thought this was n't quite right , and spent most of the first half trying to think up a new Forrester song , to the tune of Monty Python 's ‘ I 'm a lumberjack ’ . |
| 23 | Atkinson the manager spent most of the second half demanding more effort from Atkinson the striker . |
| 24 | Like most of the Leeds fans at Maine Road , I spent most of the second half with my hands on my head groaning in disbelief . |
| 25 | With this in mind he spent most of the last two years of peacetime , training in Switzerland and then in the USA . |
| 26 | Jack spent most of the next day at the hospital , but he left around six , telling his mother he was going to meet a friend . |
| 27 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 28 | Not being detached for service in America , he probably spent most of the next few years in London . |
| 29 | LAURA JOINED THE WRNS IN 1944 FROM MERTHYR TYDFIL AND SPENT MOST OF THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN PARIS AND BRUSSELS . |
| 30 | Lucy spent most of the next couple of hours in the ground-floor utility room just behind the room where she 'd slept , sitting on the tiles against the wall and reading back numbers of magazines while her washing tumbled around in the Zanussi . |