Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not say it in front of him , nor he in front of her , even though it is probable that he too would prefer to try living the next life differently , without Agnes . |
| 2 | Now the Standing Conference of Principals , the national body which represents colleges like Chester , is to meet to discuss the next move and there are calls to ignore Mr Boswell 's rejection of their case . |
| 3 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 4 | We arranged to go swimming the next day . |
| 5 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 6 | THE Scottish Amateur Rowing Association executive must have derived plenty of food for thought from open house discussions with clubs and individuals on Sunday , to help prepare the next development plan . |
| 7 | Only Fontwell survived but the course must pass a 7.30am inspection if it is to avoid becoming the 27th casualty of the season . |
| 8 | Websters Yorkshire Bitter has launched a national Shire Horse coastal tour to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first Lifeboat Saturday in Manchester . |
| 9 | Head teacher Heather Ensor has invited former headmaster David Rowlands to help launch the first event to mark the silver anniversary of the school . |
| 10 | His papers only instructed him to travel on to Edinburgh where he was to help train the next group of recruits who would take their places on the Western Front . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure we can think of something to do to pass the next hour or so , ’ he told her encouragingly . |
| 12 | The ending of the deadlock means Rechar money will almost immediately be put to use to finance the first phase of a £158m 10-year action plan drawn up by the East Durham Task Force . |
| 13 | To ease working the next row , bring the six cable needles to E position and knit ten rows . |
| 14 | Most of them will be supplied by USL 's local partners , it says , who are supposed to start shipping the first batch of user-ready code in February , seemingly an aggressive schedule . |
| 15 | He asked Karen to start work the next day . |
| 16 | But he is unlikely to have foreseen the next blow . |
| 17 | La Compania Aquas de Sabadell SA , Sabadell , Barcelona , and Telecom Valles SA , Terassa , Barcelona , claim to have developed the first system in Europe for reading water meters over the telephone . |
| 18 | To get stuck into Part Two you do n't have to have completed the first instalment , but you DO need to have the password . |
| 19 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 20 | It is of course possible to attempt to meet the second objection through the construction of checks and balances , principally through the National Curriculum Council and the Schools Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 21 | Thus the F.C.C. was held to have surmounted the first hurdle of entitlement to enter the inquiry , but fell at the second because it had misconstrued the meaning of successor in title . |
| 22 | For those daft enough to have missed the last issue , Black Night is a twopart text driven adventure game , in which a peaceful medieval village was brought to its knees by an evil warlord . |
| 23 | On Dec. 6 , with the US Marine force offshore awaiting orders to land , a 100-truck aid convoy with armed guards was reported to have transported the first food aid to leave the port for over a month . |
| 24 | ‘ I can play better , but I was reasonably happy with my game and I 'm delighted to have got the first tie under my belt , ’ said McCann . |
| 25 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 26 | To have run the most glorious run of your life , to have become the first European to break ten seconds , to do it in an Olympic final — and then to be falsely accused of drug-taking by an officialdom that was frantically sniffing out Ben Johnsons like a Salem witchfinder ! |
| 27 | The alluvial marsh was supposed to have been the site of an ancient royal swannery , and to have contributed the first syllable to the name Swanwic , mentioned in Domesday , though Old English ‘ swan ’ appears to derive from swineherd . |
| 28 | Even today , tourists may see the claw-marks on a stone where Big Ears was said to have appeared the last time this ceremony was performed . |
| 29 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 30 | The appearance of playback and CNC robots since 1977 is said to have begun the second generation of sophisticated units verging on being ‘ intelligent ’ . |