Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 4 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 5 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 6 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 7 | And there you have , not a very good picture , but you can see this was th with the goods shed as per the last ordnance survey map . |
| 8 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 9 | These have just come in in the last year . |
| 10 | As the baby grows up , 24-hour rhythms begin to appear from about the second month of life onwards . |
| 11 | The orang-utan lineage appears to have originated from within the first trend , with further modifications of skull and postcrania , but with little change in environments . |
| 12 | This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 14 | This picture is added to in the next chapter where we examine the informal relations that exist within organisations , and in Chapter 6 where we examine power . |
| 15 | The notion of power referred to here is that which Lukes referred to as the second dimension of power ( see Ch. 2 ) . |
| 16 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 17 | And we now know that these ghastly effects are the results of what we referred to in the last lecture endotoxins . |
| 18 | Where the pupils referred to in the next section are concerned , their teachers seem to play a larger role in the arbitration of proper action . |
| 19 | you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place . |
| 20 | This evidence , which will be looked at in the next section , is an indication that a direct link between allergy and mental problems is not impossible . |
| 21 | Localized variations in voting patterns may reflect changing forms of political alignment and voting behaviour ( see Johnston , Pattie and Allsopp ( 1988 ) for a review ) , and electoral politics will be looked at in the next chapter , but here I shall consider the notion of political culture more widely . |
| 22 | A meeting of university presidents was taking place in Beijing , prompted by student unrest in June ( which will be looked at in the next chapter ) , and they were considering the effects that ‘ Heshang ’ might have . |
| 23 | The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology . |
| 24 | This meant that a decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 26 | Er says in in the second sentence of the paragraph that locations most readily accessibly to West Yorkshire conurbation are likely to stimulate competition within the housing market to the potential detriment of local residents and lead to pressure for addis additional land releases . |
| 27 | Three of us , an American student , a German woman and I , watched newsreels dating from before the First World War to about nineteen forty-eight . |
| 28 | Editing methods and the standardisation of printing have opened up an immense field of choral music , dating from before the seventeenth century . |
| 29 | Whatever local radio you were listening to during the 3rd week of June , it is likely that you would have heard Delahunty 's editorial director , Paul Mace , on the hour , every hour , bringing you those live reports from the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' Championships at Eastbourne . |
| 30 | she does n't spell her name like that and I 'll speak to within the next couple of working days |