Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Halfway through the second day we got our chance to bat after bowling 132 scalding overs . |
| 4 | So for the first activity you 'll need to be in twos or threes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He were n't all over the sixth form I 've not got a to live with ! |
| 11 | So on the third day she turned homeward , for what else could she do ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 17 | Thus for the first portfolio we have . |
| 18 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 19 | Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter . |
| 20 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |
| 21 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 22 | Not for the first time he thought how monotonous it was , this unerring selection of inappropriate objects of desire . |
| 23 | Not for the first time he concluded that the Empire was inclined too quickly to dismiss mutant and alien societies and to confuse technological advancement with civilisation . |
| 24 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 25 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
| 26 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |
| 29 | Not for the first time she found herself pitying Sarah Morey . |
| 30 | Not for the first time she missed her husband dreadfully . |