Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MacPhail said : ‘ I twisted my knee early in the second half but I stayed on the field . |
| 2 | He spat on my face once in the first year . |
| 3 | ‘ Sarah Perkins took her sister home in the last stages of consumption ; how I sympathized with her distress ! |
| 4 | There have been people in Australia for the last 40000 years and claims for their presence there in the last interglacial have been made . |
| 5 | Devoid of ideas beyond booting hopeful balls forward in the first half , Alton got their act together in the second , coming from behind to take the points through sheer hard graft . |
| 6 | Remember Liverpool only got their act together in the last couple of months and finished 6th . |
| 7 | Ahl , 18 , from Exeter , outplayed her opponent particularly in the second set when she took the first five games . |
| 8 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 9 | His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 . |
| 10 | Most players have a battered specimen lying around in a cupboard somewhere ; a few sensible types even use one as their main instrument , and as a result will probably retain their hearing well into the next century . |
| 11 | Its survival far into the next century is unlikely . |
| 12 | There was no time for her sandwich , so she worked her way steadily through the next three cases . |
| 13 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 14 | But the other half wanted the day to go on forever , for Penry to drive at a snail 's pace on the way back to prolong their time together to the last possible minute . |
| 15 | The capitalist class became dominant , and although the feudal aristocracy maintained aspects of its power well into the nineteenth century , it was fighting a losing battle . |
| 16 | John Collins had put his side ahead in the 50th minute after a succession of chances were passed up , but Gunn 's suicidal challenge on Ciri Sforza near the end led to Georges Bregy 's penalty |
| 17 | He charmed , teased , involved then abandoned , his mind already on the next thing . |
| 18 | To the relief of leader Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP , David Alton , said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next General Election . |
| 19 | To the relief of Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP David Alton said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next general election . |
| 20 | Yet 24 hours later this same Ian Woosnam , who a year ago followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo by winning the Masters at Augusta National , was threatening to do so again , until the thunder and lightning affected his revival early in the third round . |
| 21 | Then Yorkshire mounted a 49th-minute attack and , aided by a deflection , Robert Ward got his shot home at the second attempt . |
| 22 | This is an important aspect of the process I have called his working his way backwards into the Nineteenth Century . |
| 23 | Dexter sighed and made his way across to the third door , halting outside it . |
| 24 | His shoulder-length jet-black hair falls dramatically and we see his face clearly for the first time — high-cheek-boned , eyes like slits of molten anthracite . |
| 25 | Open me post now for the first time , oh oh that 's nice oh I can have a update for supply teachers , Wednesday the fifteenth of April , you baby sit for me ? |
| 26 | If we restrict our attention solely to the twentieth century , it is notable that the two most important and traumatic socialist revolutions , that in Russia in 1917 and that in Germany during the Nazi era , whilst being the creation of particular political leaders who soon imposed total state power , nevertheless drew what popular support they had from political myths that are obvious paranoid projections . |
| 27 | I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read . |
| 28 | We have arrived exactly over the quarter-point from a position slightly south of our line 's origin ( i.e. , from the downwind leg at Gransden ) so must adjust our heading slightly for the next leg to the half-way mark . |
| 29 | It is interesting , however , that Ernest Man Del 's model of the stages of industrial capitalism ( 1975 : 108–46 ) , whose sequence of ‘ long waves ’ seems to correspond to the sequence of ‘ situations ’ described here , would locate our society now in the second half of the current ‘ wave ’ : and such periods are characterized , for him , by incipient crisis . |
| 30 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |