Example sentences of "[prep] their [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water freely in dry weather during the first two seasons , and feed plants each year with a general fertiliser ( 2oz/sq yd ) , starting immediately after their first clipping . |
| 2 | The scenes between Hilarion , Giselle , Albrecht and Bathilde are reminiscent of the scenes that develop Tybalt 's hatred of Romeo from the first fight between Montague and Capulet to his discovery of Romeo with Juliet after their first meeting at the ball , and finally to the fight that ends in Tybalt 's death . |
| 3 | Safety glass will break into relatively harmless pieces when it 's hit hard , but laminated glass is much more difficult to break , and will deter most burglars after their first attempt . |
| 4 | Two unconnected events , but they present a picture of sport on television which brings the state of play in the battle for the sporting viewer into sharp perspective ; BBC , centre circle , triumphant ; ITV pushed to the wings ; and the satellite and cable companies warming to the game after their first year 's play . |
| 5 | My attitude is that if a band manages to release a second album of poor songs four months after their first album left number one in the charts , it is n't worth the rush . |
| 6 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 7 | After their first post-Wales reunion , on the evening of 19 September '98 , he wrote to her fearfully about the results of their intimacy : |
| 8 | In some traditional communities , even as late as the early 1930s , unmarried girls were married off within a month or so after their first menstruation ; until then , they were kept hidden inside their homes . |
| 9 | The Cure are pop 's truest Lost Boys , still — 14 years after their first professional recording — bravely confronting the desires and dilemmas of sensitive adolescence . |
| 10 | For some , a sparkling salmon after their first cast . |
| 11 | After their first foray into a national championship , Farnham ladies made a stern resolve to do better next time . |
| 12 | Another example , I 'm afraid , of the impertinence of conductors in supposing that composers who had second thoughts were necessarily hankering after their first versions all the time . |
| 13 | Men who were ‘ happy ’ after their first taste of sexual intercourse 90% |
| 14 | Sitting next to Peter , 24 , she said she was unaware of the mix-up until there was a knock at the door after their first full day at home with Gemma . |
| 15 | They thought it over and only after their first choice , Eli Wallach , announced he would be doing a Broadway play instead of making the film , did they give the part to Sinatra . |
| 16 | She was happy enough , however , to return to her own frame house , built by her husband after their first five bitter years spent living in a sod hut . |
| 17 | He worked at Sotheby 's and , as Louise gushingly pointed out to Constance after their first meeting , ‘ He knows absolutely everybody , darling . |
| 18 | Numerous are the unresolved hurts which lurk in many of us , years after their first appearance in our inner world . |
| 19 | Perhaps ‘ end of term ’ reports on individual authorities and schools after their first two and a half years or so of implementing the 1981 Act ( when the research data were finally gathered ) would range from commenting , ‘ Encouraging progress has been made ’ , through the ubiquitous ‘ Could do better ’ to ‘ Disappointing work . |
| 20 | Bonington and Lowther went back to complete the route , which they rate at around RD/TD± , two days after their first attempt . |
| 21 | Eighteen years after their first issue , these Schoenberg performances by the London Sinfonietta remain hard to beat . |
| 22 | Firstly , users tend to contact agencies one to three years after starting to use heroin and , secondly , interviews took place over 12 months after their first contact with the two agencies concerned . |
| 23 | Less than a week after their first meeting at the poetry reading , she found a message waiting for her , asking her to ring Clelia 's number , and she rang , and Clelia invited herself round to tea . |
| 24 | He had been a reporter then and it was some time after their first meeting that he had begun his campaign to highlight the plight of the poor . |
| 25 | Table 3.2 gives the proportions of graduates in each of 30 subject categories who went on to ‘ further academic study ’ after their first degree . |
| 26 | Again , a story in Thucydides ( v.45 ) shows that the Council hears foreign ambassadors before the Assembly does ( Alcibiades persuades a Spartan delegation , after their first audience , which was with the Council , to deny at their later audience with the Assembly that they had full powers to treat with Athens ) . |
| 27 | That was April , six months after their first meeting . |
| 28 | There were a few stunners , true , but they always moved out after their first year whilst the ungainly ones became permanent fixtures . |
| 29 | The boys were about to go into the building again after their first successful looting when suddenly somebody shouted : ‘ I Tedeschi , i Tedeschi arrivano ! ’ |
| 30 | After their first year of service they were normally on active duty for only two months in each year . |