Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 2 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 3 | To see for the first time and together that incomparable view of San Marco from the western end of the Piazza . |
| 4 | Well this guy 's jumped off the second board and done a belly flop |
| 5 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 6 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 7 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 8 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 9 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 10 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 11 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 12 | If it was above £85,000 the owners would qualify for the next band and pay £551 . |
| 13 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 14 | Two fluid processing modules for the Southern platform were installed during the second quarter and a 2,000 tonnes gas compression module for Ninian Central is well on the way for completion in 1993 . |
| 15 | No matter what the future holds for the next generation and the delicate trembling wilderness , at least we can promise our children and grandchildren one sure thing . |
| 16 | The reason why some of us have voted against the Second Reading and will vote against the guillotine is that , unless we put into effect this procedure of opposition , there is no proper way in which objections can be fairly and adequately considered . |
| 17 | Results in the £1,000 Hathaway fours at the Morrison Centre showed that three games were won with the last bowl and another finished all square in a very competitive tournament . |
| 18 | They moved into the next room and sat down to dinner . |
| 19 | Political citizenship rights , notably the right to vote and to stand for election , were won in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth as the Representation of the People Acts extended the franchise by stages until universal adult suffrage had been achieved . |
| 20 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 21 | The last few questions were omitted from the last Journal and are given here . |
| 22 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 23 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 24 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 25 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 26 | Much of the church was rebuilt in the nineteenth century and both Cracow churches have lost some of their Medieval character . |
| 27 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 28 | This church was rebuilt in the twelfth century and is octagonal with an eastern apse ( 198 ) . |
| 29 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 30 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |