Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [subord] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 2 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 3 | She went on excitedly to explain how her canoe would be arriving in a week or two and she would then telephone the harbour master at Sharpness to find out when the next big bore was due . |
| 4 | I wanted to come today cos the last |
| 5 | Tell him that you do love him , but you will have very little time and energy to show that love while you are forced to worry about where the next meal is coming from . |
| 6 | Yes , there 's the relief of knowing you do n't have to worry about where the next question is coming from , but that 's simply replaced by the worry of where the first answer is coming from . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll never have to worry about where the next assignment 's coming from . ’ |
| 8 | The 23-year-old Keyline Dukes captain retained his British title only last Sunday but seems unlikely to ride again until the next round of the world individual championship the Ancit Commonwealth final at Kings Lynn on Sunday May 31 . |
| 9 | RONAN Rafferty found himself with leeway to make up when the second round of the GA European Open began at East Sussex National today . |