Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 2 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 3 | On about the third day there was a bit of excited chatter between himself and Jim Thom ( the manager ) on the subject of obtaining a £100 Scottish banknote . |
| 4 | That 's unusual is n't it , because I always think , I mean I , this is really only about the second watch I 've ever had good one . |
| 5 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 6 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 7 | Halfway through the second day we got our chance to bat after bowling 132 scalding overs . |
| 8 | So for the first activity you 'll need to be in twos or threes . |
| 9 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 10 | While Rosa Guy makes some parts of her book easy to understand , it was only after the second time I read the book that I was able to give unanswerable questions an answer . |
| 11 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 12 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 13 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 14 | So in the next chapter I shall look at the main strands of teaching in the Old Testament about the Holy Spirit , in the light of fuller perspective brought about by Jesus , the supreme bearer of the Spirit . |
| 15 | ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) . |
| 16 | We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty . |
| 17 | And many of us , I dare say , have tacitly ( perhaps wistfully ) consigned Ruskin 's views to the ash-can of history , along with other Utopian systems put together in the nineteenth century which the desolate history of our own century has made no longer tenable . |
| 18 | He were n't all over the sixth form I 've not got a to live with ! |
| 19 | So on the third day she turned homeward , for what else could she do ? |
| 20 | About eight o'clock on the eighth day I was told to pack my stuff up , because at seven o'clock the next morning I was going to Styal . |
| 21 | There is a fine hall inside on the first floor which has a pendant timber roof and modern frescoes round the walls . |
| 22 | When it comes to that though there will be people from other green parties who who 'll be looking for accommodation so at the last minute we can |
| 23 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 24 | The creche staff did a fine job of picking her up and delivering her back to our chalet , so by the second week we decided to take her skiing with us . |
| 25 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 26 | Thus for the first portfolio we have . |
| 27 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 28 | Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter . |
| 29 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 30 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |