Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The thought of facing her the next day was quite terrifying , but not an obligation Meryl intended to shirk .
2 they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place
3 After Dan Salmon 's funeral , Charlie tried to read the Daily Chronicle every morning in the hope of discovering what the second battalion , Royal Fusiliers , were up to and where his father might be .
4 It is a good sound bite , but it is not any better for hearing it the second time .
5 The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) .
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