Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the appointment was made unilaterally by the USA , which during the last days of the Noriega regime had rejected a Panamanian proposal to appoint Tomás Altamirano Duque . |
| 2 | ‘ No , no , ’ the Finnish detective said , shaking his head as if to rid himself of the last remnants of misunderstanding . |
| 3 | In the meantime , the Lebanese parliament , whose members are meeting in Taif a year after their failure to elect a president led to the creation of rival Lebanese cabinets , is itself in the last stages of life . |
| 4 | Well we were told this was the lo about the la one of the last houses to be built on this close . |
| 5 | For example , one stop at the second fence and one at the third results in a total of 40 penalties ( 20 + 20 ) , whereas two stops at the second obstacle gives a total of 60 penalties ( 20 + 40 ) . |
| 6 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |
| 7 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 8 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 9 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 10 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 11 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 12 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 13 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |