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 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 5 | But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 12 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We are probably in the last days of this authority and we want to make sure our schemes and aspirations come to fruition . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We are now in the second division of world football and world cricket . |
| 19 | We are now in the third year of recession |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We 're now in the second stage — the establishment of democratic institutions . |
| 22 | I think we 're now in the third phase , where women are expected to have a job , but at the same time to look after the family and keep themselves alluring to men . |
| 23 | In fact , we were ahead in the last game until a tactical error by one of the players ( he knows who he is ! ) caused the sad downfall . ’ |
| 24 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 25 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |
| 26 | fourth one is just like the first one . |
| 27 | When any number of heads of diplomatic missions were assembled in one place , even on the most innocent social occasion , there was always in the seventeenth century , as much as in the preceding one , a likelihood of trouble . |
| 28 | If one says that they are both in the second row you will know they are on the two n's of nomen . |
| 29 | They are mainly of the fourth , fifth and sixth centuries B.C. and illustrate episodes and customs in Etruscan life . |
| 30 | They are still in the first flush of passion . |