Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I di I dive off the first board but I could n't even jump or drop off the second board . |
| 2 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 3 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 4 | Maybe send them out rather than wait till the next meeting , aha |
| 5 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 6 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 7 | But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension . |
| 8 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 9 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 10 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 11 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 12 | I was allowed to get up and dress on the tenth day after Heather 's birth , and go to the day room of the hospital ready to go to my billet at the fortnight . |
| 13 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 14 | And that 's what we 've got ta try and do in the next , next few weeks really . |
| 15 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 16 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 17 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 18 | This sort of awareness of the children 's requirements is a key role for the teacher in most activities as she tries to anticipate and provide for the next stage in each child 's development . |
| 19 | I mean he 's not gon na sort of get up and go within the next twelve months is he ? |
| 20 | Here a second fleet of transports would be waiting with another 20,000 men , who would assemble and embark at the last moment to secure the maximum surprise . |
| 21 | Carolina , a sixteen-year-old whose mother is learning to read and write for the first time , is a voluntary helper with the grandmothers ' group . |
| 22 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
| 23 | As in his earlier anthology , The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse ( 1984 ) , he sets out ‘ to question some of the deeply ingrained preconceptions about what it was possible to feel , think , and write in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 24 | We supposedly get a couple of days to recharge and then turn up refreshed here to shine and glitter on the first night while they 're wrecked . |
| 25 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 26 | Failure to do this will obviously leave the child unprepared to understand and deal with the first time he or she is called ‘ nigger ’ , or some other racial slur . |
| 27 | Eventually orders came through confirming the worst : the Austrian cuirassiers were to stay there and fight to the last man . |
| 28 | She 's done nothing but play for the last two years . |