Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 2 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |
| 3 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
| 4 | Early in the nineteenth century it was wrongly deduced , on the basis of scanty observations of surface features , that the axial sidereal period was about 24 hours , prograde . |
| 5 | Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " . |
| 6 | Early in the second half it was Aberdeen 's turn to score from the spot through substitute Joe Miller after Richard Gough tugged Scott Booth 's jersey . |
| 7 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |
| 8 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 9 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 10 | Half-way through the twentieth century it was becoming clear to the more perceptive analysts that , whatever the political limitations might or might not be to that form of growth , there were ecological limitations looming on the horizon . |
| 11 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 12 | President , conference , as I say , up twice in the first day it 's a cracking conference that starts with motion three seventy and works backwards to number one it 's better than Thunderbirds really . |
| 13 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 14 | Earlier in the nineteenth century it was estimated that there were 2000 handloom weavers within a radius of 7 or 8 miles from Portadown . |
| 15 | And then in the second half it was a completely different story . |
| 16 | From then until the fifteenth century it belonged to de Burghs , de Clares , the Earls of Lincoln , de Lacys , Lestranges , and by the 1300s , when Sir John Talbot lived there , it was already quite an important property . |
| 17 | Ten years later it stood at 3,253 , then over the next decade it shot up to 5,169 . |
| 18 | It begins with a single central fact , the murder ; it broadens out as suspect after suspect comes into play ; then almost at the last moment it narrows abruptly down to another single fact , the murderer . |
| 19 | Perhaps it decided to stay put and I would n't notice it was there and maybe at the last second it decided it would run for it ! |
| 20 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 21 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |