Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me . |
| 2 | On the Tuesday night , however , my Private Secretary , Steve Godber , rang me at a dinner to tell me that at the eleventh hour Nigel Lawson had put round a minute which sought to reopen the whole issue of the replacement for SERPS . |
| 3 | get the figures , do I mean , we 're talking generalities , if you 're saying from what you know already the , the remote control gear is going to be sixteen double O four six eight O seven , and that is the best bearing arrangement that anybody could , anybody could produce , then , if that 's the answer , then for goodness sake get the figures , stick 'em in a memo so we can go and hit Peter , and make it quite clear to them that over the next year they 're going to lose half a million six double O ones , or whatever it is |
| 4 | In actually physically up dating anything , I would suggest that at this point that Simon does n't do of them until after the next meeting when we have got all the other 's together as well because again they may attach things , just that you 've got your information and know what 's been decided and do the whole lot after the next meeting . |
| 5 | But the whole incident has depressed me and for the first time since being diagnosed it occurs to me that I might be dying . |
| 6 | The thought worried me until about the sixth month of my second pregnancy . |
| 7 | It was thought fit that the men should meet at Kendal on the 29th of July at night , where the leasors , or one of them , would attend them and on the next morning take them to visit the " said Myne " and examine its prospects . |
| 8 | At Standard Grade pupils carry out an investigation in a topic which interests them and by the Sixth Year each will be capable of using the Heriot-Watt University computer model of the economy . |
| 9 | I came to tell you that in the next life you wo n't return to Earth . ’ |
| 10 | I just feel that you know , if you if in the seventh year they get the opinion that you work in school and you do nowt out of school come ninth year , tenth year , eleventh year you ai n't gon na change it ! |
| 11 | The drive is fairly tight with the wind against you but with the second shot , the real fun begins . |
| 12 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 13 | The party turned around to face him and for the first time the fat man moved . |
| 14 | And his quality show earned the praise of manager Steve Gritt , who said : ‘ That is the best all-round performance I 've seen from him and for the second game in succession he 's earned us a draw . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless she followed him and for the next quarter of an hour they streaked up and down the pool . |
| 16 | John Kenworthy replaced him and in the 86th minute netted with an angled shot . |
| 17 | George drove past her and into the first lay-by . |
| 18 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 19 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 20 | Roger , Terry and David , er need to take this away , have a look at it and at the next meeting we either then draw some conclusions and again what I 'm looking for |
| 21 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 22 | We shot another 74 and we were as glad of it as in the first round . |
| 23 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |