Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days .
2 And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range .
3 There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total .
4 However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester .
5 There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years .
6 They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business .
7 He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’
8 The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down .
9 When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found .
10 However Steve decided it would be unfair for the winners to go without some kind of reward , and so he intends to pop round to show you his collection of ‘ Bunty ’ comics — expect him within the next 28 days .
11 He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 .
12 If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters .
13 WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green .
14 The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify .
15 This relationship is indicated by equating it with the first m of the oral plate is the second area .
16 I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come .
17 I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection .
18 What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years .
19 Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days .
20 His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century .
21 During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond .
22 But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m .
23 His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton .
24 But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances .
25 If you are using two strands of 2/30s for your jacquard then add one extra strand for the welt and remove it after the last two CX rows .
26 TOKYO ( Reuter ) — The Liberal Democratic Party , struggling to win back voters alienated by scandals and a sales tax , yesterday chose the Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , to lead it into the next general election .
27 Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there .
28 No I put it in the last two times .
29 Mr Joseph Bronson ( HMS Milne ) , of Helmington Terrace , Hunwick , is still waiting for his medal but is expected to receive it within the next few weeks .
30 But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year .
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