Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 So that 's why we said well let's get on and decide which of the next four homes to be refurbished .
32 Harry withdrew inch by inch along the dim passageway to the end , where he could have the wall on two sides of him , and flattened himself into the last shallow embrasure , beneath the last curved corbel .
33 And now time , which in the last ten minutes seemed mysteriously to have halted , flowed again and he was standing at his bedroom window five days later watching the great ball of the sun rise out of the sea to stain the horizon and spread over the eastern sky the veins and arteries of the new day .
34 Usually it was a relief to be free of those gentle and accusing ghosts , which in the last few months had visited her less often .
35 An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology .
36 ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’
37 She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days .
38 The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars .
39 He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him .
40 He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her .
41 Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels .
42 While the most prominent member of the VSC , Tariq Ali , was soon to become a member of a smaller , and less durable , International Marxist Group , it was the IS which did much of the groundwork , and which over the next five years was to reap most of the recruits .
43 The Plan can not cover you during the first 24 months for any existing medical condition you may be suffering from or have received treatment for in the two years prior taking out the Plan .
44 Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith .
45 The innuendo in this remark proved too much for the petite figure in the front row , who during the last few words was showing signs of unmistakable distress .
46 The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures .
47 Naomi Sargant , who for the first eight years of Channel 4 as the Senior Commissioning Editor for Educational Programming , talked to Women about her experience of the television industry .
48 Anita Culley , who for the last six years has co-owned Walworth Castle with her husband , said the new plans could cost around £750,000 .
49 Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 .
50 And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’
51 Power therefore passed to the Radicals , who for the next two years dominated a series of coalition governments of increasingly right-wing complexion .
52 One in five had received no training in the Act and most were expecting to receive none during the next six months .
53 You times the last 6 ways by 4 to get 24 .
54 Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days .
55 He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’
56 ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’
57 I had to practically bite my knuckles to keep my hands off you for the last three weeks , and I did it because of your innocence !
58 She 's got to put up with you for the next six months or more ! ’
59 We 'll stick with you for the next three months , with fresh advice on the latest findings in psychology and exercise , and more glorious recipes .
60 The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds .
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