Example sentences of "it [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | And to insert it between the third and fourth word can change the meaning rather dramatically . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 7 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 8 | His swarming attacks gradually overwhelmed wright who took two knock downs and a standing count before the referee halted it in the third . |
| 9 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 10 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |
| 11 | I 'm not gon na have it , you 're gon na say , give it to the third caravan parked on the beach on the left hand side of the loo |
| 12 | If I do n't pass it at the third time I 'm just gon na give up cos I 'm not failing more |