Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 2 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 3 | Look , seriously , do I need to get on the next train back to Liverpool Street and go and find her ? ’ |
| 4 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 5 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 6 | I want to refer to the third Sessional Order , Mr. Speaker , dealing with access — the last one to which you referred . |
| 7 | What I want to explore in the next chapter , then , is the question of the cultural boundaries between different subjects . |
| 8 | The particular case which I want to develop in the next chapter is that those strategies that involve sustained denial of or inattention to personal ideas , values , philosophy and vision , are bad strategies . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to ride over the next big bore at Stonebench . ’ |
| 10 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 11 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 12 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 13 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 14 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 15 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 16 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
| 17 | Such is the burden of what I hope to argue in the next chapters . |
| 18 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 19 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 20 | Perversely , I enjoyed going beyond the last putt , and watching Augusta 's chairman , embodiment of America 's ‘ Establishment , ’ claim his share of world television with a speech of mind-bending banality . |
| 21 | I remember thinking of the 121st Psalm as we looked longingly towards the hills — ‘ I will lift up my eyes … ’ |
| 22 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 23 | So that erm perhaps puts erm some of sexuality in a little bit of a historical context erm and um I suppose coming into the nineteenth century though , nineteenth century , particularly the second half of the nineteenth century , in large cities it was notorious for child prostitution for um a whole rate of exploitative sexual practices that underlay Victorian respectability so erm all these um peculiar kinds of things seemed to be going on . |
| 24 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 25 | I try to come round the second thing . |
| 26 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 27 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Why , oh why , do I get mispatterning on the second side of my jumper ? |
| 29 | ‘ If someone tries to get into the first room , two of the three men will fight , but Rupert of Hentzau or Detchard will run into the second room and kill the King , ’ Johann said . |
| 30 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |