Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 2 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 3 | But Forest , who only let Walker go in the first place because he had a release clause in his contract , will also be in the hunt . |
| 4 | On Sunday she heard Nahum preach for the first time , and she met the assistant curate , a young , delicate-looking man by the name of Daniel Marsh . |
| 5 | " Increment descriptor " makes the descriptor refer to the next character in the string . |
| 6 | Why did the crisis occur in the first place ? |
| 7 | And with feelings too complex to itemise , he watched the curtain rise on the first official London performance of The Hooded Owl . |
| 8 | He smiled and Robyn watched and felt her heart stop for the hundredth time . |
| 9 | Would these principles survive into the next period of change in the 1990s , or had they outlived their time ? |
| 10 | Clegg , in the first novel , is obsessed from the beginning , after he has heard Miranda speak for the first time , he says ‘ It haunted me . |
| 11 | Thus did his byline appear in the first issue . |
| 12 | You 've made my life complete for the first time since your mother died . ’ |
| 13 | Should the call come within the next week , I shall be taking out a full-page advert in the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus to express my thanks to you all for your support during my short period as manager . |
| 14 | Only later , on the negative or the print , would the photographer notice for the first time , say , a sundial on a distant lawn . |
| 15 | ANOTHER excellent performance saw Toft progress to the fourth round of the Cheshire Cup with an emphatic win over Liverpool Competition side Birkenhead Park . |
| 16 | Will his reputation survive into the twenty-first century ? |
| 17 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 18 | Today we look at what makes boys tick in the second part of our exclusive Daily Mirror teenage sex survey . |
| 19 | But did an agreement exist in the first place ? |