Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 2 | The pattern changed again on the 25th as a strong , cold northwesterly dug in behind a complex series of troughs , the precipitation turning increasingly wintry . |
| 3 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We came here on the ninth of June nineteen fifty . |
| 6 | Reward came immediately with the first of 21 caps . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . ) |
| 9 | It will return tomorrow with the first in the annual series of company performance league tables . |
| 10 | Nails pulled furiously on the last of his cigarette , threw it down and stamped on it . |
| 11 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 12 | Somewhat surprisingly , given the avowed centrality of curriculum development in the project , " linking the centre closely to the curriculum of the school " appears only as the last in a long list of implementation steps . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Grant blazed forward in the ninth with a big right and left and Graham was down . |
| 16 | It is to be regretted that teachers dwell disproportionately on the first of these conventional classroom for the sake of a permanent record . |
| 17 | We turn now to the third of the imperatives that shape the bargaining climate : the political context . |
| 18 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 19 | By the late 1930s the argument had swung emphatically towards the first of these two aspects of the idea . |
| 20 | Heather went there on the tenth of September , you know , to see Rex Cunningham . ’ |
| 21 | What 'appened there on the first of June last year were n't just a tragedy , oh no . |
| 22 | yes I see , I think er unfortunately doctor I in this particular case I ought to make an order for certificate for counsel erm in the current , in respect of the costs incurred below on the thirteenth of August seems to me do er the proper kind of case in which to instruct counsel . |
| 23 | Casting was practised here from the 13th to perhaps the mid-16th century AD , though terracotta sculpture was practised earlier . |
| 24 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 25 | As the Dolphin approaches , summoned by Arion 's song , the suspense is maintained almost to the last by means of secondary dominants . |
| 26 | And very much more recently , Lord Shuttleworth who is the chairman of the rural development commission , and this he said actually on the sixteenth of November this year , said , There is a severe lack of affordable housing in the countryside which obviously does n't improve the situation . |
| 27 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 28 | The action begins tomorrow with the first of two qualifying rounds , and as usual , the field is studded with quality . |
| 29 | Three famous golf links lay below Patrick as he stood there in the last of the daylight — Royal Cinque Ports , Royal St. George 's and Prince 's . |