Example sentences of "from [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much , can be gauged from seeing the first four entries under " D " in the index : dactylic foot , Daily Mail , Darwin , Charles , and deconstruction . |
| 2 | The presumption of innocence is also concerned with victims ' rights : it is there to prevent an innocent suspect from becoming the second victim of a crime . |
| 3 | On Friday he played the match of his life to beat the defending champion , Jahangir Khan , in five games , and at 6-0 up in the final game on Saturday he was not far from becoming the first player to beat both Khans in the same tournament . |
| 4 | Last summer , he and fellow Teesside Polytechnic student Paul Kuiken , 19 , were prevented by police from becoming the first to canoe over the 72-ft High Force waterfall in Teesdale because of fears they would be killed . |
| 5 | But that is petty cash to the jackpot the Rangers players and the club will earn from becoming the first British side to play under the changed European Cup format . |
| 6 | In the 1950s Khrushchev 's attempt to do so by de-throning Stalin and mending fences with Tito torpedoed two client regimes , Bierut 's in Poland and Rákosi 's in Hungary , whose authority derived as much from venerating the first as from anathematising the second.is |
| 7 | The combined Staines/Nine Elms team somehow managed to finish with a negative score , which earned them the title of ‘ most sporting team ’ , and saved head office teams from occupying the last two positions ! |
| 8 | An hour later , standing in the darkness , so far from having the fourth murder in a series , they had a new killing : one which was superficially like the others , but whose only real resemblance lay in the infliction of one particular wound , and the manner and location in which the body was laid out after death . |
| 9 | He was just back from giving the Second Channel a tour of the White House at night , something he often did , and with a proper historical reverence . |
| 10 | Alas , defensive naiveties prevented the Vikings from reaching the last four . |
| 11 | Your selection to receive this invitation , and the allocation , exclusively to you , of seven numbers that you alone can enter in the draw , means that you could be just one step away from winning the first prize in this £40,000 draw — which would give you the choice that I mentioned between a lump sum and an income for life . |
| 12 | At that very moment , a waiter turned abruptly from clearing the next table and crashed into Loretta . |