Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 2 | on for the first time yesterday |
| 3 | Soon they will be needing a personal loan , perhaps for the first time ever , to pay for the carpets , the curtains and the new kitchen . |
| 4 | MAKESHIFT court proceedings in the home of a dying lung-cancer victim , Alfred McTear , had to be abandoned halfway through the second day yesterday on doctor 's advice . |
| 5 | There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like . |
| 6 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
| 7 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 8 | As a result , metal-working ( which was hardly developed at all in North American native cultures ) was widespread in Siberia from the second millennium BC , and long before the seventeenth century AD all its indigenous peoples either worked iron themselves or used artefacts made of the precious metal when these could be obtained by trade . |
| 9 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |
| 10 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 11 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 12 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
| 13 | But Dawn Run was back alongside by the next fence only to suffer another reverse when clouting the fifth from home . |
| 14 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 15 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 16 | We 've got Oxford United away in the 4th round so hopefully we 'll get past them and establish a good cup run — who knows if we win the FA cup I may even relent in my criticsim of Sgt Wilko . |
| 17 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 18 | Not until the 4th Century AD was the concept of rest-day transferred by the church from the Jewish seventh day ( Sabbath ) to the Christian first day . |
| 19 | Already in the first century AD , under the influence of Judaism , Roman Society had begun to introduce a weekly day of rest — unlike ancient Greece where there were not even any school holidays , except on special occasions such as days in honour of Apollo , Poseidon , etc . |
| 20 | Already in the sixth century BC , at the time when Buddha and Mahavira lived , that part of India was ruled by the Achaemenids of Iran , and Iranian influences have been important in India ever since . |
| 21 | Be bec , the appalling thing is that they 're quite , they 're quite happy to spread this pain on those who are in the least position to burden it and they believe quite rightly and this , this is the I think , that exists between socialism and and and the Conservatism in that sense that whereas erm , you know opinion surveys bear out the fact that people are quite happy , those who can afford it to pay a little bit extra in terms of direct taxation for those service provisions , which are absolutely vital and these surveys have been conducted in public and they have been made quite er er open to the press , er , just before the last election particularly for the health authority and so forth . |
| 22 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
| 23 | If you could just turn over to the next card now Bill . |
| 24 | ‘ Not till the next time anyway , ’ came the laughing reply . |
| 25 | The physics and cosmology that provided the framework in which this astronomy was set was basically that developed by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. In the second century A.D. , Ptolemy devised a detailed astronomical system that specified the orbits of the moon , the sun and all the planets . |
| 26 | The railways in America could be built very quickly and cheaply in the nineteenth century partly because of the efficiency of the timber trestle bridge . |
| 27 | Acquisition of the Macedonian mines in the mid-second century B.C. brought in further notable gold resources and these were still further enlarged by Trajan 's conquest of Dacia early in the second century A.D. |
| 28 | Settled early in the third century BC and survived the Punic Wars . |
| 29 | Alfoxden had been built by the St Albyns early in the eighteenth century close to the centre of their ancient park . |
| 30 | The basic differences between them in respect of their value to architectural study is that Ostia was occupied and developed over a much longer period , from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. , and that it was not a provincial city but the port of Rome and , as such , became more important , as is evidenced by its buildings . |