Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Hinrich and Senta Medau are no longer with us , their work and inspiration live on through the second generation , while in this country the Medau Society celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 1987 . |
| 2 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 3 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 4 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 5 | On about the eighteenth floor , I hear the elevator doors open and voices cursing in Polish above . |
| 6 | On about the third day there was a bit of excited chatter between himself and Jim Thom ( the manager ) on the subject of obtaining a £100 Scottish banknote . |
| 7 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 8 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 9 | They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 10 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 11 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 12 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 13 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 14 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 15 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 16 | on for the first time yesterday |
| 17 | Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day . |
| 18 | If you attempt to pass the SPR on for the seventh time or to the same user twice , LIFESPAN will display an error message and you will not be allowed to pass it on . |
| 19 | As the military mutiny dragged on for the sixth day , President Corazon Aquino asked Filipinos to ‘ join hands and consolidate our resources to rebuild what we have destroyed ’ . |
| 20 | As the military mutiny dragged on for the sixth day , President Corazon Aquino asked Filipinos to ‘ join hands and consolidate our resources to rebuild what we have destroyed ’ . |
| 21 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you know , before this I went out and bought Tesco 's own-brand baked beans to live on for the next month , ’ she remarked , rather unconvincingly . |
| 23 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 24 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 25 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |
| 26 | The Italian dirty tricks department worked overtime as Galvano 's management tried to scream ‘ no contest ’ , claiming a head clash caused the badly cut left eye that meant their man could n't go on after the third round . |
| 27 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 28 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 29 | In contrast , at times Durie looked ready to scream , especially when the errors started creeping in during the second set of her 6-2 , 7-6 win over the promising Yayuk Basuki . |
| 30 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |