Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 2 | Of all the hundreds of trade pattern books issued by manufacturers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears that not more than ten survive in public collections , and only one pre-Victorian priced catalogue relating to coffins and lining materials . |
| 3 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 4 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 5 | And even when you got into your second years you did get erm two hours off one day and three hours the next , which was usually five till eight . |
| 6 | Second year parents ' evening on Wednesday , seven to nine o'clock , er second years you know that it probably makes sense to be there erm with your parents er this Wednesday the no not this Wednesday , Wednesday week the twenty third , which is next Wednesday , there 's no leisure centre for first year students , er and in fact there are no Wednesday afternoon activities at all next Wednesday . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh no , not again , ’ remarks an attractive blonde whose car is stopped for the second ti me in a day . |
| 8 | On second thoughts we could plasticize and sit on it on the patio . |
| 9 | If you could , you 'd be rich ; no on second thoughts you would n't , because any fool could do the same . |
| 10 | To dispose of odd numbers , you 'll need to … no , on second thoughts I 'll leave you to work that one out yourself ! |
| 11 | ‘ No , on second thoughts I do n't , ’ she offered mockingly . |
| 12 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 13 | On second thoughts he also sent one of his aides to fetch blankets as well , for some of the ladies did not seem to be very decently attired and , although they did not look very enticing , he still did not want them to give his men ideas . |
| 14 | But on second thoughts he erases the remark , and replaces it with a slight smile . |
| 15 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 16 | But on second thoughts he said , ‘ Where we felt a chance existed of a pass if the questions ‘ fell out well ’ . ’ |
| 17 | yeah they 're all the , they must sell them , the perfect ones and the second ones they sort of er petrol station cos they 've all got slight faults on them . |
| 18 | Between her first and second missions she was commissioned an ensign in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry . |
| 19 | Indeed , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it suffered an almost total collapse because of the imposition of a tax levied according to the value of goods advertised . |
| 20 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was the crown 's desire to spend , and Parliament 's desire to limit the tax burden , which led to regular conflicts between the king and Parliament . |
| 21 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was only the most affluent who were able to benefit from refrigeration during the summer . |
| 22 | Of the minstrel songs of the tenth and eleventh centuries we know exceedingly little . |
| 23 | They paid their knights to stay beyond their term ; they paid mercenaries ; and in the late tenth and eleventh centuries we first find evidence of that strange hybrid , the holder of a money fief , or fief-rente . |
| 24 | In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries they were channelled through the Justice of the Forest . |
| 25 | When monks from France and Flanders were settled in the Border abbeys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they introduced new skills , and also devoted themselves to the expansion of sheep rearing to provide the necessary basic material . |
| 26 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 27 | Ultimately , however , Spain was a stepping-stone in the transmission and survival of Nazarean tradition , which continued its migration northwards , along the Atlantic perimeter of the Roman Church 's authority , until between the mid-fifth and the mid-seventh centuries it found its fullest European expression in the Celtic Church of Ireland . |
| 28 | By the fifth and sixth centuries they were set adjacent to larger churches , usually in the atrium facing the narthex . |
| 29 | In order to understand Clovis within the context of the late fifth and early sixth centuries it is necessary to emphasize the contemporary evidence , and to treat Gregory , as far as possible , as a secondary source . |
| 30 | I mean if you were n't in at whe when you were in your third and fourth year , it was a four year er training , er in third and fourth years you were allowed to stay out till ten o'clock at night . |