Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 2 | Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say . |
| 3 | In 1515 , we find a cow being left to provide a light before the rood to burn from the second peal to matins , and till high mass is done and from the second peal to evensong till evensong be done for ever more . |
| 4 | Finally , all is prepared and as the second hand ticks over into 8.30 pm the command ‘ Run Tape ’ is given . |
| 5 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 6 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 7 | A subtle psychological barrier was crossed and at the next two evening sales , as Swiss dealer Jan Krugier says , ‘ The revival of the Impressionist market was astonishing ’ . |
| 8 | Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole . |
| 9 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 10 | The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile . |
| 11 | With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them . |
| 12 | A gluten free diet was started and over the next two months there was 2.3 kg weight gain and symptomatic improvement . |
| 13 | For the second time since the 19th century the value of the try has been changed and for the second time this century the drop goal value has been altered . |
| 14 | The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender . |
| 15 | If the Emperor was to make any progress in pursuing the English alliance , it was essential that some way be found to produce a common enemy against whom a common front could be established and in the mid-19th century Britain 's only apparent enemy , that is the only one which seemed to threaten her interests , was the Russian Empire . |