Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bravest of the brave : Fullback Jim Staples prepared to clear his lines as All Black skipper Sean Fitzpatrick — who lost the best part of two of his front teeth to an Irish fist — hems him in during the record 59–6 loss to New Zealand in Wellington . |
| 2 | How then can the term ‘ mass medium ’ be pinned down for the period 1945 — 90 ? |
| 3 | It added that on present trends , the number of children being born each year was likely to peak in about the year 2000 . |
| 4 | In about the year 1971 the first plaintiff established a music school ( ‘ the centre ’ ) . |
| 5 | It is traditionally accepted that it was in about the year 753 B.C. that a tribe of people settled near the Tiber on the Palatine Hill . |
| 6 | The whole house sat down after the Rosary one evening to pick the hospital she would go to . |
| 7 | The pound is up at one point seven nine dollars , and down against the Deutchmark two point eight four marks . |
| 8 | Great consternation was felt in banking circles , who felt they could be implicated , and less draconian measures to deal with the matter were brought in under the CJA 1988 , which allows the waiving of civil liabilities if banks inform the police of suspicions of fraud or drug trafficking in good faith . |
| 9 | It comes in from the number nine , gets the goal but it was brilliantly created for him there by and it 's a quick response by right on the fifty minute mark , we 've had an hour of the match and it 's now three one . |
| 10 | ‘ Bastard , ’ growled Lofty , ‘ they 'll find him face down in the river one of these days , the way he 's goin on . ’ |
| 11 | Their debacle against Essex , when the last eight wickets went down in the final 20 overs to Mark Ilott and John Childs , reflected a temperamental flaw that has repeatedly dogged the county . |
| 12 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 13 | Now , in the twilight of the 20th century , is the time to re-establish our commitment to the earth and embark on a new decade of environmentalism as we count down toward the year 2000 . |
| 14 | In Paris er , were top of the M & A league but the volume was well down on the record nineteen ninety . |
| 15 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her . |
| 17 | But she made a point of going down to the jetty one day to tell him , ‘ I 'm really glad you found your boat . ’ |
| 18 | When she went down to the kitchen eight mugs on the draining-board said that someone had washed up ; she was the last . |
| 19 | But the orchestra is playing a medley from Fiddler on the Roof , the audience is clapping impatiently in time and , horror or horrors , I can see now there are no stairs — just a long slide circling down to the stage 60 feet away . |
| 20 | He cites the Chinese gesture of bowing down to the ground nine times before an emperor . |
| 21 | I went down to the caravan one day to take some apples , and was startled to see a continuous ripple of ice on the inside of the caravan wall just by my friend 's plump , inviting-looking pillow . |
| 22 | Why do n't you pop along to the hospital one night and pay Len a visit ? |
| 23 | She opened the door and looked down at the gutter two feet away and then sighed . |
| 24 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 25 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 26 | Our sales staff would be pleased to discuss your requirements and the many new concepts Interglass are working on towards the year 2000 . |
| 27 | You may be wondering if you will have enough willpower to see this through for the whole 28 days . |
| 28 | Most came over during the period 1955 to 1963 and took what work was commonly available ( the vast majority were unqualified academically ) . |
| 29 | We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures . |
| 30 | The figure that we have come up with in fact is derived by holding constant the numbers rather than the rate of vacant dwellings through to the year two thousand and six , which implies that by the year two thousand six , we 'd have would have a vacancy rate of six point two percent or or thereabouts . |