Example sentences of "[conj] by the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 2 | This seems to have been revised twice , and by the third edition it was re-titled as Public Offices and Metropolitan Improvements , with an appendix added , comparing the cost of Hope 's plan with that of the Government 's . |
| 3 | The ten divisions of the French Fifth Army and the four divisions of the BEF had , therefore , on the instructions of General Joseph Joffre , virtually put their heads into a noose , for they could easily he assailed from the north by the German First and Second armies and by the Third Army from the east . |
| 4 | We were tipped to transfer , but nobody mentioned when or where , and by the third week we felt despondent . |
| 5 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 6 | For the first two hundred years of the Roman influence in Britain , the bodies of the dead were usually cremated , but by the third century they were burying them instead . |
| 7 | But by the third quarter of the nineteenth century , with an efficient railway service and a telegraphic system , road transport was no longer relied on and the two largest funeral furnishing houses , Messrs Dottridge of London and Ingall , Parsons & Clive of Birmingham , were dealing with telegraphic orders dispatched by rail , to reach any part of Great Britain within two days . |
| 8 | When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it . |