Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are welcome to call me at home on if you want to discuss this , but note that I am away between the 3rd-19th April . |
| 2 | I 'm just in the next room . |
| 3 | And I 'm only onto the fourth 'un . |
| 4 | Marion ? and I was n't in the last week so I doubt whether |
| 5 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 6 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 7 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 8 | But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war . |
| 9 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 11 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 12 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 13 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 14 | OK , she is n't quite in the Chrissie Goulandris league ( £290 million ) , but we reckon she 's probably around the 133rd richest woman in the country — just pipping Old Ma Thatcher with her £9.5 million . |
| 15 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 16 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
| 17 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
| 18 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 19 | The threat was sufficient to alarm the king 's sister Adela , and she warned the king , who was now in the last stages of planning his final great attack on his brother 's duchy of Normandy . |
| 20 | You might get the occasional guest who notices a camera in the foyer or speaker in the restaurant but we are nearly into the twenty-first century and high tech equipment does not have to be offensive . |
| 21 | ‘ We are probably in the last days of this authority and we want to make sure our schemes and aspirations come to fruition . ’ |
| 22 | We are back with the ninth century as a historiographical battleground : " It was the best of times , it was the worst of times … " |
| 23 | And Schlegel in turn is followed by the Three Pieces Op. 29 by Jan Brandt Buys ( 1868–1933 ) , whose abrupt , rather Janáčekian turns reveal that we are now in the Twentieth Century , if only just . |
| 24 | We are now in the second division of world football and world cricket . |
| 25 | We are now in the third year of recession |
| 26 | We 're on to the next area now are n't we ? |
| 27 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
| 28 | She treats us to her speciality sad gaze to camera , so we can see that rather society 's collapsing or her piles are hurting , and then we 're off to the next item . |
| 29 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 30 | We 're now in the second stage — the establishment of democratic institutions . |