Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 2 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 3 | If Punch dies , how do I keep sane for the next 40 years ! ! |
| 4 | ‘ I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game . |
| 5 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Perhaps their own style , which became dominant in the twentieth century , did not emerge as such until sciences moved into the phase of theory and systematising which ( for rather obscure reasons ) suited them admirably . |
| 7 | Graphite mining was another industry which became important in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | By ‘ thought ’ , however , Pascal does not mean that somewhat shallow notion of Reason which became fashionable in the eighteenth century and which has become fashionable again in the twentieth in the guise of formal logic . |
| 9 | The reasons for their getting involved in the first place are multiplex , involving many related processes , which I will endeavour to uncover . |
| 10 | These he assembled in his Chelsea Knackatory in 1695 , an establishment which proved popular for the next hundred years . |
| 11 | Thompson is concerned to place plebeian recreations into a popular mentalité which remained active through the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |
| 13 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 15 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 16 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 17 | Sixty-seven of them and you get sick at the sixty-eighth ’ , it is as if he is saying it to us over his shoulder as he bends down to examine another body . |
| 18 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 19 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 20 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |
| 21 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 22 | I hope that these very brief summaries of our business do not leave you feeling depressed after the fourth year of recession in our industry because we all have a good deal to be optimistic about . |
| 23 | She remained feverish over the next 14 hours with cold peripheries and an arterial blood pressure of 90/50 mm Hg . |
| 24 | find a cure erm perhaps we should try and think about why we get depressed in the first place , I know there 's lot of people who co , here have had problems . |
| 25 | Then we fell foul of the 16th . |
| 26 | What we tend to do we get bored after the first two thousand and we start writing people letters . |
| 27 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 28 | Will they feel empty on the last child 's departure and give substance to what is often called the ‘ empty nest ’ syndrome of marriage ? |
| 29 | They struck lucky with the second block of flats . |
| 30 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |