Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 2 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
| 3 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 4 | I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings . |
| 5 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 6 | They walked down the first flight of stairs in silence . |
| 7 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 8 | Nicandra pounded down the second flight of the back staircase leading to the ground floor — here one imposing door marked the entrance to the hall , another was the service door into the dining room . |
| 9 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 10 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 11 | I ran down the next flight of stairs and knocked on Mavis 's door . |
| 12 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 13 | There is some leeway as to when you choose to bring in the next hod of coal and restoke your boiler , but not a lot ; leave it too long and the fire goes out , and you must start all over again . |
| 14 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 15 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 16 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 17 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 18 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 19 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 20 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 21 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 22 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 23 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 24 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 25 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |
| 26 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 27 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 28 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 29 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 30 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |