Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 2 | These recent proposals reflect Moscow 's current priority to retrench economically and militarily in the Third World . |
| 3 | For two days after their conversation Ruth did not see the woman , and then on the third day a man leaned over from the upper deck and called out to her . |
| 4 | Two nights a week she worked here and then on the third night she washed her hair and all her clothes to get rid of the smell of fried fish and went dancing . |
| 5 | And then for the third leg of our erm Radio Oxford yankee , we go over in the tenth race , the nine forty eight . |
| 6 | And then in the third leg of the yankee , the eighth race , this is the nine sixteen , third quarter final erm and here I 'm going to have to go for Ned Supreme in trap one , trained by Kenny Linzell at Romford in Essex . |
| 7 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 8 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 9 | They were standing side by side and ahead of the third figure , who was positioned directly behind them . |