Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Once the court is satisfied that there is evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , it must go on to consider the second requirement : was the provocation enough to make a reasonable man do as D did ? |
| 32 | People out enjoying the first weekend of the season on the Thames , watched helplessly , as the Yorkshire Belle exploded in flames at Radcot Bridge . |
| 33 | The fish then propel themselves back to catch the next wave . |
| 34 | Tony and Nathan have made tea and soup and we have some before going out to feed the first batch of dogs . |
| 35 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
| 36 | Our party is about morolity morality , morality and justice and truth and it 's about representing our class , That 's what we have got to get back to win the next election . |
| 37 | A similar exercise will also be carried out to fix the first review date in outstanding mandatory life sentence cases where this has not already been done . |
| 38 | Clashes also continued within Turkey itself during this period , and some 40 people were reported to have been killed in separate incidents , the worst of these occurring on Aug. 16 when 14 Kurds and five troops and police died as demonstrations broke out to mark the eighth anniversary of the separatist rebellions of 1983 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] . |
| 39 | If so , stop , take your eyes off the book , take a deep breath , allow your face muscles to relax and then come back to read the next sentence with even keener interest but with less strain . |
| 40 | After spending 10 days in hospital she was back to watch the next home game , but from a safe distance . |
| 41 | Rees , however , hit back to take the second set 7-5 and then moved 6-2 ahead in the next but Gourlay replied with two doubles and a single to take the set 7-6 . |
| 42 | Leo , who 's a year older , fights back to take the next sprint by a length . |
| 43 | It appeared then that Adam had actually been out shooting the last time he was here . |
| 44 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 45 | He went on to chide the Fifth Army : |
| 46 | ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’ |
| 47 | Brigadier Smithson , who was apparently due to go on leave the next day , rang Southern Command and managed to arrange that he should go straight to London by train after the conference . |
| 48 | Each goal should last one week before she moves on to add the next goal to her eating behaviour . |
| 49 | The principles for establishing lists of goals for fat reduction are similar to those for sugar reduction , namely , do the things that are easiest first ; use lots of small , easy steps ; spend about a week trying to behave according to that week 's goal ( and with all preceding ones being maintained ) before going on to add the next goal to your repertoire . |
| 50 | Off the field , Celtic are playing down weekend speculation that they 're about to announce the first instalment of finance for the Cambuslang stadium development . |
| 51 | Winkelmann was just about to publish the first book to use the word art history in its title , This book on the history of Classical Art is seen as a milestone in the history of art history . |
| 52 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 53 | I am about to make the first incision . |
| 54 | Suppose you 're about to make the last payment on your mortgage . |
| 55 | I was about to enter the Sixth form at the outbreak of war . |
| 56 | The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm . |
| 57 | Hero McCullough even went on to take the third round in his victory over the tough Cuban Joel Casamayor . |
| 58 | He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country . |
| 59 | Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed . |
| 60 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |