Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water . |
| 2 | Bridget looked after her son for the first eighteen months before getting a job so he recognises her as his mother , whereas it could be quite easy for a baby to start calling its grandmother " Mum " . |
| 3 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 4 | An Academic Development Officer was appointed and an Academic Development Committee set up , and in 1971 the Polytechnic was approved by the CNAA as a centre for its awards for the next five years . |
| 5 | It 's not possible really to understand Eastern Europe now unless you know a little bit about its history for the last 150 years . ’ |
| 6 | In the case of other human beings I have the evidence of my senses for the first and last links of the series , but not for the intermediate link . |
| 7 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 8 | I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects . |
| 9 | The motley band stared in awe at the figure who would be in charge of their lives for the next three months . |
| 10 | The Chinese foreign ministry said yesterday that a resumption of Sino-British dialogue depended on Mr Patten abandoning the proposals , which would allow Hong Kong people to elect a majority of their legislature for the first time in 1995. — Reuter |
| 11 | THE mothers at the centre of the hospital baby swop case talked of their anguish for the first time last night . |
| 12 | There , Daf workers who are made redundant will receive 70 per cent of their wages for the next four years . |
| 13 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 14 | The smaller girl was already quietly repeating the words of her song for the twentieth time . |
| 15 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 16 | A woman has the right to stop work until her child is three and gets a third of her salary for the first 18 months . |
| 17 | She was beside herself , shouting at the top of her voice for the second time that day . |
| 18 | In addition , the Treasury has offered an ex gratia payment of £580 to Ms Anouschka Zagorski , studying law at King 's College , London , to reimburse the cost of her fees for the last academic year . |
| 19 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 20 | Today he spoke of his ordeal for the first time.Shortly before midnight on Sunday he 'd checked and locked up the pub as normal . |
| 21 | Details of his transactions for the first month are given . |
| 22 | But Steve Lunn 's superb solo effort four minutes from time , the best goal of the match , brought Shilton out of his dugout for the first time to summon all hands on deck . |
| 23 | Thus when the girl secretary who was to become Dostoevsky 's wife rang the bell of his flat for the first time , the door was opened by an elderly woman servant with a green shawl thrown over her shoulders . |
| 24 | The critical factor was the depth of his contempt for the Fourth Republic . |
| 25 | His continued absence increases speculation that Arsenal 's David Seaman will step out of his shadow for the first time in 18 months against the Poles next week . |
| 26 | That 's the point that Hughie has set as one of his objectives for the next twelve months , is to get the group acting as one team , and not five or six separate teams . |
| 27 | The pension in these schemes is generally based on 1/80th of your earnings for the last few years before retirement , plus a lump sum of 3/80ths of the same earnings . |
| 28 | But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing . |
| 29 | So do n't , you get most of your marks for the first erm sort of twenty minutes writing usually unless your r I mean some of you might not get any marks at but I mean most of you will yeah you get most of your marks on the first twenty minutes . |
| 30 | On Sunday 6th we have a free day — a much needed respite to enable us to prepare some of our work for the next week — but in the evening we went to dinner with from the embassy , as well as with two senior visitors from London , one from the British Council ( , who is responsible for all Chinese visits ) and one from the Foreign Office . |