Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 2 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 3 | Gooch and the England selectors meet in Manchester to choose their squad for the second Test at Lord 's , and Atherton 's place as Gooch 's opening partner is one of those up for discussion . |
| 4 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 5 | The blonde hostess leaned across him to re-charge his glass for the umpteenth time . |
| 6 | The only paper on your desk should be that on which you are currently working and material waiting to receive your attention for the first time . |
| 7 | If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings . |
| 8 | It is probably fanciful to cast Mrs Moore as Phaedra , or the P'daytabird as Theseus , but now Lewis was crossing the sea to see his father for the last time . |
| 9 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 10 | Well they , they said at that meeting they 'd hoped to have their system for the next one which is the seventeenth October |
| 11 | After a heavily-publicised week on the slopes of Lech with their mother , the Princess of Wales , the princes are likely to join their father for the next part of their Easter holiday . |
| 12 | When Menelik founded Addis Ababa in 1889 the countryside had been forested with juniper and wild olive , but these had soon been cut down for firewood and building material , whereupon Menelik announced that he was going to move his capital for the third time . |