Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 2 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 3 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 4 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 5 | Oh well I 'll keep the insurance company er I w er we will send them a little note in that case , saying look , you know , this is the case , it appears to be an innocent lesion she 's just been finely checked over on the eighth of October , do you feel you can now proceed ? |
| 6 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 7 | However , he would n't be surprised if it was announced at DECUS in Cannes in September and first shipments came right after the first of the year . |
| 8 | The Devil , wriggling out of the last of his knitted tail , wiped the shiny grease off his face and neck before strolling over . |
| 9 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 10 | We came here on the ninth of June nineteen fifty . |
| 11 | Reward came immediately with the first of 21 caps . |
| 12 | No it 's it 's the one week which bridges the two erm months , but er er I will be , that we would normally be meeting again on the thirteenth of September , would n't we ? |
| 13 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 14 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 15 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 16 | ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . ) |
| 17 | But , moving on to the second of the problematic areas indicated earlier , the liberal mode itself is open to question , irrespective of its organisational context . |
| 18 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 19 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 20 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 21 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 22 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 23 | Nails pulled furiously on the last of his cigarette , threw it down and stamped on it . |
| 24 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 25 | We 've got a hearing coming up on the sixteenth of July in |
| 26 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 27 | ESSEX champions Braintree 's challenge for promotion to the East Super League started well in the first of three play-off matches against Pelicans , from King 's Lynn . |
| 28 | Well , actually I left school , I think it was the either tenth or eleventh of November nineteen thirty one and I went straight into the Transport Department and I think my record will show that I actually started there on the twelfth of November nineteen thirty one . |
| 29 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 30 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |