Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 2 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 3 | Recruitment always operates to tight deadlines , such as catching the last post . |
| 4 | I have some hesitation about accepting the second leg of the ratio decidendi in the circumstances but that is certainly the way in which Fox L.J . |
| 5 | The US Energy Department announced a five-year , $103m agreement with the Sematech semiconductor consortium to develop equipment for producing the next generation of chips : its Sandia National Laboratories , near Albuquerque , New Mexico will contribute the materials database and the expertise in advanced systems design needed to improve performance and reliability and Sematech will provide manufacturing expertise to the five-year programme . |
| 6 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 7 | The 23-year-old Dubliner is a proud man through becoming the first player from South of the Border to become Irish professional snooker . |
| 8 | Dalglish is concerned after seeing the Second Division table-toppers manage just one win in their last seven games . |
| 9 | She 'd been so angry , after seeing the first picture of him with Dara , that she 'd wanted to get rid of anything that had reminded her of their time together . |
| 10 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 11 | After completing the first circle of fabric tufts repeat with a second row about 1 cm away towards the centre . |
| 12 | COLCHESTER sailor Richard Merriweather has told of the trials of the deep after completing the third leg of a round-the-world yacht race . |
| 13 | So if the carriage starts pattern knitting at the point cam and after knitting the last row , calculates which stitch , of the pattern to start knitting on , if you move the point cam nearest the carriage between knitting one row and starting the next , you will find your pattern has moved sideways . |
| 14 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 15 | After keeping the first appointment she failed to attend two further treatment sessions , telephoning the therapist after the second to say she felt better . |
| 16 | After absorbing the first batch of strange-sounding names this is a book which is difficult to put down . |
| 17 | For example , after picking the first letter of a word they were seeking , users had to scroll through all the words in the database beginning with that letter to find what they were after . |
| 18 | Sometimes a young civil servant would be appointed to a subordinate revenue position immediately after passing the first law examination . |
| 19 | After rounding the last mark incorrectly , they returned , losing places in the process , only to catch a submerged dustbin on their keel . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Leicester City fans have claimed Middlesbrough star Jamie Pollock encouraged a pitch invasion after scoring the first goal of his career at Filbert Street . |
| 21 | A fair result in the end , Leeds dominated most of the second half especially after scoring the second goal — however a number of players had poor days on the whole ( Macca , Strach , White ) and some had a downright shit day — Deane and Hodge . |
| 22 | POLICE were following a new lead yesterday after reconstructing the last walk of murdered Tracey Carey , 20 . |
| 23 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 24 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
| 25 | After viewing the last page of the message , you will be given the option to Print , Retain or Delete the message . |
| 26 | After viewing the last page , you will be given the option to Print , Retain or Delete the message . |
| 27 | After viewing the last page of the message , you will be given the option to Print , Retain or Delete the message . |
| 28 | David Rigby , the Wirral 's Director of education , after attending the second session of the workshop , said he intended to take the lead in setting up structures within the education administration to promote the issues of service level agreements , quality assurance and total quality systems . |
| 29 | After spending the second night in a hotel in Bristol , she awoke to find the streets and rooftops covered in snow . |
| 30 | Shortly after having the second baby , I chose to be sterilised . |