Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 2 | Similarly the italicised we in the third line of the fourth stanza . |
| 3 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 4 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |
| 5 | England 's first choice spinners , Emburey and Tufnell , did not take a wicket between them until the third day of the third Test . |
| 6 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 7 | This brings me to the third general quality of successful replicators : copying-fidelity . |
| 8 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 9 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 10 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 11 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 12 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 13 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 14 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 15 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 16 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 17 | Dr Groome had hooked Susan up to Yggdrasil and floated her in the third tank . |
| 18 | She followed him to the third floor , then along the gallery to a closed door . |
| 19 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 20 | FERRIS J. This is an appeal by the third party , an accountant , from an order of Master Munrow made on 3 October 1991 dismissing his application that a third party notice , served upon him by the third defendant in the main action , should be struck out . |
| 21 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 22 | And to insert it between the third and fourth word can change the meaning rather dramatically . |
| 23 | The technology necessary to produce films , and television and radio programs , is so much more advanced in the industrialised countries than in the LDCs , that it is frequently much simpler and cheaper to import material than to produce it in the Third World . |
| 24 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 25 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 26 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 27 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 28 | His swarming attacks gradually overwhelmed wright who took two knock downs and a standing count before the referee halted it in the third . |
| 29 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 30 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |