Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 2 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 3 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 4 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 5 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 6 | He did n't , he did n't wan na go out you , you in the first place and he just did n't bother to tell , tell anybody |
| 7 | He used to shut you in the next room and give you a pile of books and you 'd have to take notes from about seven or eight different books . |
| 8 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 9 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 10 | They draw a half dozen songs from their eponymous debut LP , plus one off the next album and encore with a cool-funk reading of ‘ Hey Joe ’ . |
| 11 | They draw a half dozen songs from their eponymous debut LP , plus one off the next album and encore with a cool-funk reading of ‘ Hey Joe ’ . |
| 12 | Data from one patient at the first stage and another one at the second stage and from two volunteers had to be excluded because of appreciable probe drift , apparent at probe calibration after the test . |
| 13 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 14 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 15 | David does n't want them in the first place and he wo n't argue , I 've discussed it with Robin he wo n't argue , erm Richard who 's the only one that could really be regarded as a loser dare n't argue 'cos it 's his report that recommends we they come back to us , and John wo n't understand the item so I think we 're alright there . |
| 16 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 17 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 18 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 19 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 20 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 21 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 22 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 23 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 24 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 25 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 26 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |
| 28 | If you leave it til the last minute and you question spot , you might end up in a sticky situation How many people here have failed an exam ? |
| 29 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 30 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |