Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 2 | an expensive miss … was followed up in the second half by an even more expensive mistake … as Tommy Mooney was presented with a chance to make it two nil … |
| 3 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 4 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 5 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 6 | It started out as a means of protecting Parliamentary privilege and was probably first stated as a principle back in the 18th century by Willes J in Millar v Taylor . |
| 7 | GAUCHE , OVER the top t'witching and ‘ woulding ham job with Julian Sands zapped way back to the 18th Century by Richard E Grant 's title character . |