Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An external consultant was called in and the first steps towards a safer environment were taken with the installation of signs indicating emergency exits and fire extinguishers . |
| 2 | So I was taken in and the first job I was taken , by this young fella , eighteenish , big chap to me , but he said , Come on young'un , this is what you 've got ta do . |
| 3 | Now , I mean there 's no way they can say the money does n't go in and the last couple of months it 's been nine hundred and fifty pound , rather than seven hundred and fifty ! |
| 4 | ‘ They gave me a quick sponge down and the second take worked . |
| 5 | ‘ Weigh her down and the first squall rips the mast out of her , ’ he warned . |
| 6 | He wrote it down and the next cow came in . |
| 7 | and it pulled over and the next thing I saw this smoke puffing , Nathan was sitting |
| 8 | There is a foreign rule which brought contamination with it : the contamination is over and the Last Judgement is in sight . |
| 9 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 10 | The Boer War was on and the first sort of major conflict erm in the period of movie history , and naturally people wanted to see what the war was like . |
| 11 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 12 | One of the girl 's knocked the handbrake off and the next thing the Hurcombe 's heard was a loud bang . |
| 13 | One of the things you , you 've got to do is get used to actually talking standing up and the first thing you do you find when you s talk standing up is you discover that you 've got hands . |
| 14 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 15 | And one one day you know it 's flared up and the next day it 's dead , but they say it 's better coming out to the surface . |
| 16 | " The soldiers went out and the first creature they found was Rabscuttle , grazing on the hill-top . |
| 17 | On 20 June Peugeot went back and the first sackings of trade union leaders occurred . |
| 18 | The bunch were 3.30 behind at this stage but the gaps widened hugely over the final miles , the chasers finishing over three minutes back and the third group , led in by Norman Campbell , over 13 minutes down . |
| 19 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 20 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |