Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've still got another week to come though , that might be about January the third onwards , for a week . |
| 2 | He was the son of Edward the Third , one of our more warlike kings , but he died the year before his father did , and that 's how we came to get the boy-king Richard the Second in thirteen seventy-seven . ’ |
| 3 | He , as well as Anne and Joan herself , was of Plantagenet stock , being a descendant of Edward the Third 's son Lionel , through the female line . |
| 4 | Cam Head the high point , and the hamlet of Starbotton the third point of the triangle . |
| 5 | As the narrator of The Prisoner of Zenda , Rassendyll is at first inclined to be deprecating about the relationships between ‘ the palace at Strelsau or the castle of Zenda and Number 305 Park Lane , W. ’ He is well aware that his brother , Lord Burlesdon , prefers to forget the misbehaviour , in 1733 , of Rudolf the Third of Ruritania and the Countess Amelia , wife of the fifth Earl of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll , which resulted in the transmission of certain characteristics ( ’ long , sharp , straight noses and a quantity of dark red hair ’ as well as blue eyes rather than the dark hue more common to the Rassendylls ) in several generations of the family . |
| 6 | The budget review sub-committee has a provisional date of Thursday the third of February , which was in the minds of members and officers to deal with anything urgent that needed to be dealt with before county council budget making . |
| 7 | We stepped into the cold marble hall and waited under a statue of George the Third masquerading as Alexander the Great . |
| 8 | The tunnels were built in the reign of George the third … but engineers say they 've stood up to two centuries of wear remarkably well . |
| 9 | Within the Tower 's walls stood its keep , the imposing White Tower which for the two hundred and fifty years since the reign of Henry the Third had been regularly whitewashed . |
| 10 | like Richard the Third |
| 11 | For instance erm somebody like Napoleon the Third . |
| 12 | ‘ Richard ’ , for the female of the species , derives from Richard the Third rhyming with ‘ bird ’ , but was now well past its sell-by date . |
| 13 | In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect . |
| 14 | at that time and erm , we had a lot of German shutters and cameras in museum before September the third on September the fourth when I got to work they were all out . |
| 15 | We leave on Friday the third . |
| 16 | There 'll be a Christmas Fayre meeting on Tuesday the third November at two thirty in the hall here . |
| 17 | . Sir , do n't forget it 's my birthday on May the third . |
| 18 | These concerns were reflected in memos like this , Gordon head of the state lottery finance department was part of the team charged with evaluating G Tec 's bid , he warned on November the third last year . |
| 19 | I 'm assured by Tommy that after I open the Saw Valley Way er traffic jam on November the third , you you 'll get a slight better erm , slightly better chance traffic through , er . |
| 20 | I 'm showing it at the Norwich Contemporary Arts Exhibition on October the third if I can get it there . |
| 21 | In the offices at Gedling pit , and I started work on August the third . |
| 22 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 23 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
| 24 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |