Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [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 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 18 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 19 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 20 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
| 21 | The new US position led to a closing of ASEAN ranks , with little evidence of the internal quarrelling over Cambodia which had surfaced at the 22nd annual meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brunei in 1989 . |
| 22 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |
| 23 | The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die . |
| 24 | Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . |
| 25 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
| 26 | If you spotted a smart black-and-white magpie in a field , that was certainly one , but if , when you 'd walked into the next field , you saw another , was that two or another one ? |
| 27 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 28 | Matter of of people who 'd died in the first world war . |
| 29 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 30 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |