Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRINCESS Anne must take much of the credit for bringing royalty into the 20th Century . |
| 2 | , The NRA has announced a " disturbing " rise in prosecutions of companies and individuals for polluting water over the last two years . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's the best day of my life , ’ said Capriati after defeating Graf for the first time . |
| 4 | Twenty-three years after becoming premier for the first time , he shows every indication of wanting to lead the Liberals against the Parti Québécois in another election . |
| 5 | Burnden Park boss Bruce Rioch is keen to strengthen his squad after winning promotion to the First Division , and Manchester United 's Welsh international figures highly on his wanted list . |
| 6 | Graham Calvert has three useful performers left in the competition , Chessmen , which has clocked 27.77 secs off 7 metres , Ruffside Hall ( 27.76 ) and scratch dog Dozy Court , which won in 27.64 last Thursday and finished third on Monday night after hitting trouble on the third bend . |
| 7 | A fountain pen is a writing instrument , metonymically ‘ fountain ’ relative to its reservoir , non-dip implicitly in its connotation , constituting a magnetic focus of cascading libido to the last drop , paradigmatically self-dipping in a Reichian sense . |
| 8 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 9 | According to the 1987 Conservative Election Manifesto : ‘ Home-ownership has been the great success story of housing policy in the last eight years . ’ |
| 10 | COPING AWARD : a local laundry has offered Mrs J vouchers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of washing bed-linen over the next six months . ’ |
| 11 | You may also catch the village music festival with dancing happening on the third week of July . |
| 12 | Damna " goes with " ( as a noun followed by its modifier ) , with ( as a modifier followed by its noun ) , sits in mid-line between the adroitly shuffled noun-phrases , and , the word that marks an emphatic turn in the poem , is slipped into focusing position after the first word of the new verse-sentence . |
| 13 | ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly . |
| 14 | Children need to get involved in using language from the first lesson . |
| 15 | It moved from Greenwich in 1933 to new premises built on an estate provided by ship owner Gifford Sherman Reade in gratitude for the work of the Royal Navy in safeguarding shipping during the First World War . |
| 16 | For instance , at Hambro Life Assurance , employees receive the costs of legal and any other fees incurred in buying property for the first time . |
| 17 | THE coming of age of Regional Railways as a fully-fledged business within British Rail is expected to trigger investment in signalling equipment over the next decade . |
| 18 | £20 million will be invested in reading recovery in the first year . |
| 19 | And in taking prey for the first time he had found courage . |
| 20 | Just as the Spirit was active in breathing life into the first man ( Gen 2:7 ) , so here he is associated with the birth of the last Adam . |
| 21 | We might pause at this juncture to ask just why the British Government should assume an obligation to provide decent housing for the working classes , when in other countries rather different policies were pursued ; also why Britain embarked , consciously or otherwise , on a massive shift in housing tenure over the next 50 years and more . |
| 22 | Mr , er a moment ago congratulated the County Council in fact on the success of the strategy in reducing migration over the last ten years or so . |
| 23 | It intends to use its contacts with architects , builders , joiners , electricians etc to provide a building and hopefully also assist in raising income for the first few years ' running costs . |
| 24 | But the report missed the fact that the republicans , through the Wolfe Tone Societies , had been largely responsible for creating NICRA in the first place and some commentators have accused Cameron of naïveté about republican influence . |
| 25 | Once we have paid the claim , consideration should be given to pursuing recovery against the Third Party , by way of the Subrogation condition in the policy . |
| 26 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 27 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 28 | A survey by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) has reported that major industrial companies expect to double their spending on cutting pollution over the next decade . |
| 29 | YORK HOUSE 11 October : The Duke of Kent , Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , today received Lieutenant-Colonel GW Henderson on assuming command of the 2nd Battalion and Lieutenant Colonel JC Gunnell on relinquishing the appointment . |
| 30 | Before we provoke any lawsuits , let's go back to what turned Rich on to playing guitar in the first place . |