Example sentences of "be [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's about the third or fourth ti me that they have seen it — the same is probably true for most of the videos on the camp . |
| 32 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 33 | No , Hayden says if we go to Comet cos he said , cos I said I bought my video at Comet and they were offering twenty five per cent off , twenty five per cent off off the at Comet so that 's about the third of the place . |
| 34 | Which is like the third of the tri-glossic |
| 35 | It is from the third movement of the ‘ Lützow ’ Piano Concerto , k242 , and shows accentual emphasis put into sharp focus in a pattern of clear stroke over the first , dots over the following quavers — a pattern repeated a number of times in exactly the same manner . |
| 36 | The great growth in Christianity at the present time is in the Third World and those parts of Eastern Europe that are still under atheistic leadership . |
| 37 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 38 | Though there has been good response in the first two areas , it is in the third that the brief hints in the text have been totally transcended through the amazing growth of lay groups meeting for prayer or study , representing various degrees of organization or none , some purely Catholic but most of them ecumenically open . |
| 39 | The real trouble is in the Third World . |
| 40 | The style that Rosa Guy uses in ‘ The Disappearance ’ is in the third person singular and apart from the descriptive parts , a large majority of the book is written in dialogue form . |
| 41 | The first leg is in the third race , the eight o'clock , this is the first quarter final . |
| 42 | ‘ It 's on the third floor , ’ said Zanya . |
| 43 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 44 | It was after the third year of struggle that we decided to go militant . |
| 45 | No there was a vision and I think the , the Apostle had was of the third heaven |
| 46 | That was in the third minute and , four minutes later , Steele landed a second penalty goal when Leicester erred at a line-out . |
| 47 | The last possible moment for a negotiated settlement was in the third week of September . |
| 48 | It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while . |
| 49 | She was in the third of its twenty-odd rows of wooden seating . |
| 50 | Owers only cup appearance was in the third round win over Port Vale . |
| 51 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |
| 52 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 53 | Sixty-one was on the third floor . |
| 54 | It was on the third evening that she went round Ashden Place . |
| 55 | Her flat was on the third floor with its windows looking towards the river . |
| 56 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 57 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |