Example sentences of "the [noun] [num ord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overreacting with shock and dismay when the child first comes out with a four-letter word is the best way to ensure he or she uses it again and again . |
| 2 | When The Clash first met up with beat poet Allen Ginsberg in '81 , Joe asked , ‘ Well Ginsberg , when you gon na run for president ? ’ |
| 3 | What happened was that the water first backed up behind the lipped edge of the top step , then over-flowed , and spilled with increasing force , in a sort of hydro-chain-reaction , down each subsequent step to the bottom of the channel . |
| 4 | When the call first came in from Fraxilly , I did n't accept it . |
| 5 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |