Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 2 | The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time . |
| 3 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 4 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 5 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 6 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 7 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 8 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 10 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 11 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 12 | The Plan can not cover you during the first 24 months for any existing medical condition you may be suffering from or have received treatment for in the two years prior taking out the Plan . |
| 13 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 14 | Moving to a different part of the country , for example , or even a chance meeting , may be the trigger to reactivate a relationship with someone in this outermost circle , thus drawing them into the second category . |
| 15 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 16 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 17 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 18 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 19 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 21 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 22 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 23 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 24 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 25 | The adoral shields are large , slightly convex and situated totally proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 26 | The adoral shields are nearly rectangular and situated almost entirely proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 27 | They lie proximal to the oral shield and not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 28 | The adoral shields are large and are restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 29 | The adoral shields are short , slightly curved and situated proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 30 | The adoral shields are slightly convex occupy a large portion of the jaw proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |