Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 2 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 3 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 4 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 5 | It 'll be interesting to see if I 'm still on this basic-guitar tack when we go in to record the next Tin Machine album . |
| 6 | Even with Malcolm Kirkland dropping down to captain the second team , left-arm spin is likely to play a vital part in the team 's fortunes . |
| 7 | We settle down to watch the next film . |
| 8 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 9 | They dropped their kedge anchor 200 yards offshore and settled down to await the first wave of assault craft . |
| 10 | ‘ Players like myself and skipper Alan McDonald can play our part by lending our experience to the young players coming through to form the next World Cup side . |
| 11 | Wigan are 7-4 on to win the First Division championship with Corals . |
| 12 | Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 . |
| 13 | Mario went on to win the next race at the Glen and the championship by a handsome margin , with Ronnie posthumously second . |
| 14 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 15 | White faced the official carpeting , defused the attacks with a firm but polite dignity , and went off to catch the next train unaffected by the experience . |
| 16 | ‘ They all rushed off to do the next scene . |
| 17 | Stephen gave an absent-minded nod and hurried off to solve the next problem . |
| 18 | On Saturday the two prelates attended a service of vespers at the Church of San Gregorio , which stands on the site where Pope Gregory sent St Augustine of Canterbury off to become the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597 . |
| 19 | Chris refuses to do something I 'm afraid when somebody 's already done three quarters of the work , you ca n't put somebody on to do the last quarter . |
| 20 | The two got togged up to publicise the first programme in their new series of Watchdog tomorrow night ( BBC1 , 7.30pm ) which investigates the cost of school uniforms . |
| 21 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 22 | This will further strengthen the company and ensure that it is well set up to face the next decade with confidence . |
| 23 | Once the court is satisfied that there is evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , it must go on to consider the second requirement : was the provocation enough to make a reasonable man do as D did ? |
| 24 | The fish then propel themselves back to catch the next wave . |
| 25 | Tony and Nathan have made tea and soup and we have some before going out to feed the first batch of dogs . |
| 26 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
| 27 | Our party is about morolity morality , morality and justice and truth and it 's about representing our class , That 's what we have got to get back to win the next election . |
| 28 | A similar exercise will also be carried out to fix the first review date in outstanding mandatory life sentence cases where this has not already been done . |
| 29 | Clashes also continued within Turkey itself during this period , and some 40 people were reported to have been killed in separate incidents , the worst of these occurring on Aug. 16 when 14 Kurds and five troops and police died as demonstrations broke out to mark the eighth anniversary of the separatist rebellions of 1983 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] . |
| 30 | If so , stop , take your eyes off the book , take a deep breath , allow your face muscles to relax and then come back to read the next sentence with even keener interest but with less strain . |