Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
2 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
3 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
4 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
5 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
6 | We 're committed to Harlow er , as an area we put considerable resources of our own into the first phase of er , the Three Hills and you 'll hear tonight we 'll be putting in a conditional er , two hundred thousand odd into into this phase from our own reserves . |
7 | And the big Aucklander really came into his own in the second half after the 50th-minute dismissal of Warrington prop Neil Harmon for a high tackle on Oldham hooker Richard Pachnuik . |
8 | The notoriously media-shy financier has come into his own in the last ten years as one of the most successful behind-the-scenes advisors in the British art world . |
9 | The majority of collectors of autograph and manuscript material will not concern themselves with these early periods or with anything much before the sixteenth century . |
10 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
11 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
12 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
13 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
14 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
15 | At all centres we complete your logbooks at the end of the holiday , and most beginners are happily sailing on their own by the second week . |
16 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
17 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
18 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
19 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |
20 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |