Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the new generation of non-English church leaders in Australia , he led the campaign for Anglican women priests , and planned to ordain the first in Melbourne next year . |
| 2 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 3 | ‘ If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures . |
| 4 | The fisheries agency is running advertising and school campaigns promoting the health benefits of whale meat and has declared the ninth of every month to be " eating whale meat day " . |
| 5 | Bob acquired the Blackburn-built Swordfish in September 1970 and has spent the last 22 years painstakingly rebuilding the aircraft . |
| 6 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 7 | While remaining guarded about the exact type of operation Shadowfax is considering , the partners are currently looking at sites and expect to open the first one within the year . |
| 8 | He said he was afraid the delay over the book had lost him the opportunity of reaching the city in time to take part in any meaningful work , and promised to join the next summer 's dig in June . ’ |
| 9 | As the words blazed their rainbow colours around him he flung his hands back and prepared to say the eighth and final word that would appear in coruscating octarine and seal the spell . |
| 10 | He jumped out of bed , contemplated his new seaside pyjamas with renewed pleasure , and prepared to enjoy the second week of his precious holiday . |
| 11 | Many nights she had cried with loneliness when he was fast asleep beside her and risen smiling the next morning to continue the battle . |
| 12 | Hence , we do need to think about how we will deal with the situation if the Government rides roughshod over all informed opinion and ceases to fund the fifth year of full-time education . |
| 13 | It was this subordination of the social and political value of a newspaper to commercial priorities that so exercised politicians and helped get the second and third Royal Commissions on the Press set up in 1961 and 1974 . |
| 14 | A Trotskyist party , the Spartakovtsy , is also being formed and intends joining the Fourth International , formed in the 1930s by Trotsky . |
| 15 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 16 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 17 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 18 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 19 | When she returned to the table and began scooping the first of the curd into a mould , they felt her eyes burning into them , all three of them . |
| 20 | After a meal which bore sumptuous witness to the Riverside Country House Hotel 's reputation for reasonably priced and lovingly prepared local game and produce , we soaked in the charming 17th Century atmosphere and began to plan the first of our walks . |
| 21 | After a meal which bore sumptuous witness to the Riverside Country House Hotel 's reputation for reasonably priced and lovingly prepared local game and produce , we soaked in the charming 17th Century atmosphere and began to plan the first of our walks . |
| 22 | Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day . |
| 23 | The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar . |
| 24 | Alistair telephoned — He then discussed the matter with Hazel and decided to take the next day off work . |
| 25 | Grumpily I circled the church ( Michelin one star ) , bought a newspaper , drank a cup of coffee , read about the charcutier , fou d'amour , and decided to take the next train back . |
| 26 | Mika Enberg , ICL 's TeamWare product marketing manager says ICL began seeking US partners three months ago and hopes to sign the first in three or four months . |
| 27 | Dana was opinionated and liked to have the last word in an argument . |
| 28 | We add the following instructions : Start Input Device i : set DF ; to 0 , and start reading the next character into DB ; on completion , set DF1 to 1 . |
| 29 | Alternatively , you could let the recording run on , picking the best point at which to end it ( and start recording the next sequence ) later . |
| 30 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 . |