Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [coord] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two were rewarded for their success and the third was punished for failing to exercise his stewardship in a proper manner . |
| 2 | It was one of the most marvellous events of my life and the first time that any of my work had ever been put on public show . |
| 3 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 4 | Fortunately , in addition to Helen Thomas 's absorbing , unselfconscious account of their courtship and the first years of their marriage , letters still survive which chart the growth of love . |
| 5 | ‘ Not this time , sweet , ’ he said raggedly , moving over her , slowly letting her feel some of his weight and the first seeking touch of his body . |
| 6 | Then he hit me with the butt of his gun and the next thing I remember is coming round to find my colleagues crouched anxiously beside me . |
| 7 | Olazabal ( pictured ) will spend December in Northern Spain hunting with his father and the first month of the New Year with the rest of his family . |
| 8 | He slipped something in my wine and the next thing I knew was that we were on the Continent . |
| 9 | night in my tower And the next thing |
| 10 | ‘ Currently she 's got a lot of our designs in her wardrobe and the last time she was in Australia we had dinner together . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ In the end , he put a cartridge in his mouth and the next thing we heard was a shot and the police rushed in . ’ |
| 12 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 13 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 14 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 15 | Between that visit to my surgeon and the next , towards the end of January , there was Christmas and the depth of the winter . |
| 16 | So as we came to a stop the hatch was opened and this young fellow put one foot on the throttle quadrant , another on my shoulder and the next one on the top of my helmet and he was out . |
| 17 | I feel the wind on my face and the first drops of a summer rain shower falling on my hair . |
| 18 | I just felt a burning sensation on my cheek and the next thing there was just blood . |
| 19 | Perhaps you 're just playing your cards close to your chest and the first we 'll know about it is your engagement . |
| 20 | There is still a struggle to control the age , quality and temperature of food on your plate and the last leap forward seems to be to attain the perfect temprature for consumption . |
| 21 | He used to stick the stake in the hurdles and up over your back and the next pound , but the trouble was that you know what that slippery , just what 's left of the swede in the ground , when the stubble 's trodden in the mud , well the mud and the rain and you 've got to carry those , your stakes in the other hand and you 've got to get over those hurdles to set the pack . |
| 22 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 23 | I was sitting on the wall between our yard and the next , so I could hear every word . |
| 24 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 25 | we went right and these lads were about our age and the next get drunk every night , you know , talk normal sort of thing , and erm |
| 26 | December 13 , 1956 : Dear Bunny , There are some delightful , first-rate pieces in your book , such as the one about your father and the first of the two about the Jews , but I am as always distressed by your conception of Russian history , which is all wrong , being based on the stale Bolshevist propaganda which you imbibed in your youth . |