Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [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 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
4 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
8 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
9 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
10 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
11 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
12 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
13 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
14 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
15 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
16 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
17 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
18 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
19 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
20 | ‘ I 've played in the Third Division with Walsall and I do n't want to go back to it . ’ |
21 | But I 've jumped off the second one , I have n't dived off the second one . |
22 | V.W. Yes , I mean that 's something that when I first started I would n't have said , but I 've seen over the last six years changes in the governors and the role of the governors and I sense very much so that now they want Catholic appointments . |
23 | We 've created a new sector , I , I 've seen over the last three or four years , changes in the way that we 've tried to represent our membership in the Health Service from the old industrial conferences to combined industrial conferences into the er , current erm , section that we 've now got . |
24 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
25 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
26 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
27 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
28 | all I 've eaten in the last week and one day is salads |
29 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
30 | similar to well the girl mentioned earlier on , that , since then I 've had within the last couple of years |