Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
2 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
3 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
4 | Although the Christian Democrats ( CD ) , who had controlled the city council since the end of the Second World War , won only 94 fewer votes than the League — translating as 24.3 per cent of the vote and 7.6 per cent down on the last elections — the Brescia poll was widely interpreted as signalling a disillusionment among voters with existing electoral options . |
5 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
6 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
7 | Everything in front of him he read , down to the last words . |
8 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
9 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
10 | Although Ceauşescu continued to receive a daily deluge of congratulatory telegrams from tinpot rulers the world over until the last days of his rule , the reprinting of old praise from the Queen shows how desperate he was to present his people with evidence that he was acceptable to the West . |
11 | ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing . |
12 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
13 | By far the rarest type of post-medieval coffin is the gable-lidded tapered shape ; this is frustrating , especially as they are so well known in contemporary art from the fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries . |
14 | Eleven papers were given — which dealt with aspects of the history of popular culture from the 16th through to the 20th centuries in areas as diverse as early modern Germany , 19th century Russia and 20th century Mexico and India . |
15 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
16 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
17 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
18 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
19 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
20 | Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature |
21 | 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 . |
22 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
23 | They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks . |
24 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
25 | Up to the last years of the eighteenth century , declining levels of employment in agriculture for the wives and daughters of the countryside could have been offset by the taking in of manufacturing work . |
26 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
27 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
28 | They work it all out for the next weeks , even though it turns out Paul has forgotten the Tipp-Ex . |
29 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
30 | It grew out of the first demonstrations , towards the end of October 1989 , and was composed of women and men who were outraged at the filth and the toxins in the air , water and soil . |