Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 2 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 3 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 4 | The light rested on the last of these for some while , then moved upward , searching the end wall . |
| 5 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 6 | This change came with the eighth in the Val Fajr series , launched in the south on 9 February in commemoration of the period seven years earlier when the Shah left and Khomeini returned from his sojourn in France . |
| 7 | Discussion revealed that women 's interests lay very much with lambing , first aid , dairy husbandry and financial management although quite a few were doubtful about their capacity to cope with the last of these subjects . |
| 8 | the sun rose on the last of Alamein . |
| 9 | Note that the law relating to the last of these excuses , concerning distance to school from home and transport arrangements , has been amended following the decision of the House of Lords in Rogers v Essex County Council ( 1986 ) . |
| 10 | And the annual parish council meeting on the fourteenth of May . |
| 11 | The County Planning Committee meet on the seventh of December to cons to consider British Coal application for colliery waste at Gascoigne Wood . |
| 12 | In front of the King , the marshes and mud-flats of Earnbank were already filled with struggling men as his own dismounted vanguard disposed of the last of the fifty intruders from the Forth landing . |
| 13 | In fact patriarchy , class , and hierarchy all presupposed a law of gender difference which was at once divinely , naturally , and socially laid down , the law descending from the first through the second to the third . |
| 14 | The track continues west along the edge of the escarpment before turning left to the first of many little lakes — Parabaun . |
| 15 | Everyday objects are of course the stock-in-trade of Arman , whose retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum continues until the 26th of this month . |
| 16 | I move that the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the sixteenth of July be signed as a correct record . |
| 17 | Thank you Next item , Right agenda item three , notes of the Joint Consultative Committee held on the twenty-first of October , nineteen ninety-three , paper B. If I could just say a few words . |
| 18 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 19 | I have a room booked for the thirtieth of July and I 'd like a word with the manager . |
| 20 | A postponement was suggested , and the next committee meeting decided on the 7th of September . |
| 21 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 22 | The minutes of the meeting held on the twentieth of October have been er distributed . |
| 23 | Item two , minutes of the meeting held on the eleventh of October . |
| 24 | Item twenty four meeting held on the eleventh of January are received those in favour please say aye . |
| 25 | As we received the Minutes of the Personnel Meeting held on the eighteenth of October , nineteen ninety-three . |
| 26 | Er minutes of the meeting held on the tenth of January were read and approved . |
| 27 | As Haig-Thomas and I returned to camp , the summits of the Arussi mountains far in the distance glowed in the last of the setting sun . |
| 28 | He found Corrie Palmer 's name listed under the twenty-fifth of October 1850 . |
| 29 | The honourable gentleman knows that the new modern apprenticeship scheme that the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced on the thirtieth of November , is of course designed to encourage more young people to train up to N V Q level three and to encourage even more young people to train to even higher levels . |
| 30 | On offer are paintings , drawings and works of art ranging from the seventeenth to the 20th centuries . |