Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the rest of the book I turn to the second and in particular to what lies behind the mounting opposition to the Treaty , away from the fug and the isolation of Cabinet rooms , palaces and Chancelleries . |
| 2 | His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him . |
| 3 | I ran in the fifth and final heat and won easily in 10.25 seconds , hardly evoking any comment over the air-waves . |
| 4 | The exact extent of the Croatian kingdom , which flourished during the tenth and eleventh centuries , is a matter of dispute . |
| 5 | In it Jacobi referred to the theory of the momentariness of all things formulated by the Sautrânkitas , a Buddhist sect which originated in the second or first century BC . |
| 6 | The VI sports three Jaguar-like single coil pickups , with a Jag/Jazzmaster-type bridge and ‘ floating tremolo ’ , the push-in arm of which locates between the 1st and 2nd strings . |
| 7 | The result of this struggle , which lasted through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , was to confine the court to a very limited jurisdiction , dealing with purely maritime matters , such as salvage and damage by collision at sea . |
| 8 | She goes in the thirteenth and hopefully will be out the twenty third , I realize this is a big operation but I want Cheryl to come along anyway , book the table , stay with us , come with us If she could n't make it which she 'll be in so I do understand that |
| 9 | And all you 'll get back is the £1.70 you paid on the first and second instalments . |
| 10 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ It is our understanding that the cenotaph is a remembrance of people who died in the first and second world wars . ’ |
| 11 | Two more birdies coming home compensated for the bogeys she had at the fourteenth and sixteenth holes . |
| 12 | On we went , par after par , until we got to the 16th and I thought , this must be it . |
| 13 | We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time ! |
| 14 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 15 | Mrs Garel-Jones tells me : ‘ They leave on the 20th and are looking forward to seeing their parents . ’ |
| 16 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 17 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , you 're sure you feel well enough to make a statement ? ’ he asked for the second or third time . |
| 19 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
| 20 | Compacts are all about the celebration of success whether it occurs in the fourth or fifth years , sixth form or in further or higher education . |
| 21 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 22 | It may be , of course , that the intention is to numb his senses before he gets to the umpteenth and penultimate clause which requires him to foot the bill for the monstrosity . |
| 23 | The first is to be found in the structure of our law of restitution , as it developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries . |
| 24 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 25 | The 31-year-old Biasion pushed his new 16-valve Delta Integrale to the limit in making up the half-a-second per kilometre he needed in the fourth and final overnight stage . |
| 26 | Tillyard engages with the mid-twentieth century as he does with the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 27 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 28 | What transpires around the 4th and 15th should give a much clearer picture of what needs to be done . |