Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one .
2 The Crown 's servants in the sixteenth century were in many ways less effective as administrative instruments than had been their predecessors in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries .
3 Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years .
4 Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents .
5 I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years .
6 I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years .
7 ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’
8 She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours .
9 The child is receiving his direct physical care from a carefully selected woman who will be his nurse-cum-mother for the next few years .
10 People should remember that you need attention too , and not ignore you and sneak away from you , People who sneak away from you can not really be your friends in the first place .
11 My name is Howard DeVore and I 'm to be your host for the next eight hours . ’
12 These will be our aims in the next two sections .
13 A new Benjamin and Elizabeth Titford were , in a sense , rising out of the ashes of the old ; they and their children — Benjamin James , William , Henry Joseph , Charles Frederick and Emily Jane — will be our companions on the next stage of our journey .
14 He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east .
15 It 's my birthday on the thirteenth .
16 This is what pagans of the 1st century Roman Empire thought about Christians ( somewhat later it would be how Christians viewed those in league with Satan ) :
17 She 's just written to her to say that she 's on This is Your Life on the third or fourth of March , whatever it is
18 ‘ Let's see , what time is your man off the first tee ? ’
19 What would you say is your legacy to the next generation ?
20 This is a fax to OSEVA , capital O , capital S , capital E , capital V , capital A of Czechoslovakia and it is for the attention of Dipling capital D I P L stop capital I N G stop Josef J O S E F and the heading is your fax of the twelfth instant .
21 This is our objective in the next chapter .
22 Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying .
23 So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ?
24 Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ?
25 But the putt she will take rather longer to forget was her seven-footer at the sixth .
26 It was his idea in the first place to try celibacy when the Hare Krishna lot came round ten years ago with their gongs .
27 The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president .
28 What was his marks for the last test .
29 3 What was his score in the 4th match ?
30 That was his intention from the first .
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