Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 3 | Beset by mounting criticism at home , and abroad , over the way the issue had been handled , the Japanese government agreed to defer the fifth group of demands and in May 1915 delivered the remainder in the form of an ultimatum . |
| 4 | The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change . |
| 5 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 6 | As Bernice tried to read the next line , Ell moved forward and stamped on the creature . |
| 7 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 8 | Both men promised to return the next day . |
| 9 | He said he was afraid the delay over the book had lost him the opportunity of reaching the city in time to take part in any meaningful work , and promised to join the next summer 's dig in June . ’ |
| 10 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 11 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 14 | Leith wondered , as she drove to work the next morning , why she had bothered getting the car out , since she was convinced that , his warning unheeded , Naylor Massingham would waste no time in getting her out of his business . |
| 15 | We deserved to win the 1st leg too . |
| 16 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 17 | This argument , however , seemed to defy the second law of thermodynamics which suggests that energy tends to become dissipated and order to dissolve . |
| 18 | We prepared to leave the next day . |
| 19 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 20 | It seemed to represent the last word as a model for other cities to follow . |
| 21 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 22 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 23 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 24 | The government is this lunchtime expected to announce the third wave of Scottish hospitals to be given self governing status . |
| 25 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 26 | Firstly , the rice-salt solution failed to fulfil the second criterion , which demands that the materials needed for preparing the mixture should be affordable by all who need them : The actual components of the mixture were readily available , indeed this was one of the reasons which prompted BRAC to substitute rice for the less readily available gur . |
| 27 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 28 | And Shirley happened to come the next day and I about it . |
| 29 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 30 | Without this they could not communicate with one another , if each claimed to take the first place " . |