Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 2 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 3 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 4 | The Allegro assai that follows this piece probably belongs with it as the second movement of a two movement sonata . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 7 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 8 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 9 | The owner says he will sell at that price , but only if Fred collects the car and pays for it within the next 2 hours . |
| 10 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |