Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was only one stroke in it after the first round ( Thomson 68 ; Thomas 69 ) , so it was n't cut-and-dried . |
| 2 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 3 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 4 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 5 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 6 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 7 | Its garden front just manages to survive , intact on its eastern bays , sensitively refaced on the western , beneath the mound of Italianate jumble that Alfred Waterhouse piled on top of it in the 19th century . |
| 8 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 9 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 10 | Though Abraham receives the promise of the land of Canaan in Genesis 12 and , by God 's terms , takes possession of it in the next chapter , his descendants do not enter it as a people until the book of Joshua , and the business of conquest is not finished till David is secure on the throne half-way through the second Book of Samuel . |
| 11 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
| 12 | It is concealed down a narrow alley linking Hatton Garden with Ely Court but patrons have been finding their way to it since the sixteenth century . |