Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water . |
| 2 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 3 | The earliest of these postscripts to survive dates from the day after their departure on the first trip ( 12 ) . |
| 4 | This feeding was continued for a period after their release on the tenth day , in case they were unable to hunt . |
| 5 | The explanation was that the vessel had been electrochemically cleaned to remove the worst of the corrosion at some time after its excavation in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Bridget looked after her son for the first eighteen months before getting a job so he recognises her as his mother , whereas it could be quite easy for a baby to start calling its grandmother " Mum " . |
| 7 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 8 | Politburo ‘ conservatives ’ hardly had a coherent programme , and their numbers were subject to continual attrition ( Ligachev , who left the leadership after his defeat at the 28th Congress , was a notable casualty ) . |
| 9 | One of his pupils was Willie Pearse , younger brother of Patrick , who was executed the day after his brother on the 4th May , 1916 . |
| 10 | The symbol of Biarritz 's predicament was Ondarts ' thorough demolition by his tormentors — first 23-year-old Michel Perie and , after his replacement in the 65th minute of the game , by a ferocious 20-year-old by the name Marc de Rougemont . |
| 11 | Publicans have mixed feelings about their business in the last 3 days . |
| 12 | What about her version of the third sentence : It 's beautiful to look at , wonderful to smell , as well as being extremely soft to touch . |
| 13 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Ian Kennedy said he wanted to know about arrangements for her supervision over the next two years . |
| 15 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 16 | The draft contained a preamble put forward by Luxembourg during its presidency in the first half of 1991 [ see pp. 38295-97 ] , which spoke of the EC 's " federal " goal . |
| 17 | The terrace parterre is to be restored to match its appearance during its heyday before the First World War , and an extensive programme of tree planting is under way to replace the losses of recent years . |
| 18 | It did not , as has been claimed , need a Louis XI to act as its midwife in the fifteenth century . |
| 19 | On June 5 the Chart Thai Party voted to retain Chatichai Choonhaven , the exiled former Prime Minister , as its leader until the next general elections . |
| 20 | Univel Inc was down taking pictures for its scrapbook of the first editions of UnixWare coming off the production line last week . |
| 21 | The Law Society today publishes a Strategy for its work in the next three years in the Property and Commercial Services fields . |
| 22 | He told a joint meeting of the authority with Clwyd Family Health Services Association ( FHSA ) in Mold , that the authority will be bidding for its share within the next two weeks . |
| 23 | When I knew it , during the war years , it was occupied by an elderly bachelor who was one of the several mill owners in Witney , the town famed world-wide for its blankets since the seventeenth century . |
| 24 | The Association is grateful to British Gas for its sponsorship of the second edition of this publication which it had , with HCIMA , launched the previous year . |
| 25 | The Loire valley region is especially noted for its châteaux as the fifteenth century court was not yet fixed in Paris and this hunting area was a favoured one for the royal house , who visited loyal subjects in their castle homes . |
| 26 | Sheffield was already known for its knives by the fourteenth century — Chaucer refers to the miller in The Canterbury Tales as carrying a ‘ Sheffield thwitel ’ ( a large knife ) . |
| 27 | An Academic Development Officer was appointed and an Academic Development Committee set up , and in 1971 the Polytechnic was approved by the CNAA as a centre for its awards for the next five years . |
| 28 | He praised LASMO Pakistan for its achievements in the last year , especially the successful gas negotiations on the Kadanwari field [ see page 2 ] and the partnership with Shell in Block 36 , Northern Pakistan . |
| 29 | It 's not possible really to understand Eastern Europe now unless you know a little bit about its history for the last 150 years . ’ |
| 30 | We in Britain owe so much to our American allies , not only for their support during the last war , but also today . |