Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 2 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
| 3 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 4 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 5 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 6 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 7 | We 're committed to Harlow er , as an area we put considerable resources of our own into the first phase of er , the Three Hills and you 'll hear tonight we 'll be putting in a conditional er , two hundred thousand odd into into this phase from our own reserves . |
| 8 | Leicester substitute Ian Ormondroyd almost equalised in the 64th minute , but Nelson made it safe with his second in the 77th minute with a low , curling 20-yard shot . |
| 9 | After Juergen Klinsmann had fired the Germans ahead Riedle scored twice in five minutes midway through the first half and put Germany 4–1 clear with his third in the 59th minute . |
| 10 | And the big Aucklander really came into his own in the second half after the 50th-minute dismissal of Warrington prop Neil Harmon for a high tackle on Oldham hooker Richard Pachnuik . |
| 11 | The notoriously media-shy financier has come into his own in the last ten years as one of the most successful behind-the-scenes advisors in the British art world . |
| 12 | The majority of collectors of autograph and manuscript material will not concern themselves with these early periods or with anything much before the sixteenth century . |
| 13 | The impression given by de la Broquière of the Mufti as a chiefly religious figure is strengthened by the only two known incidents in which one of the first three " traditional " Muftis was actively involved in his capacity as Mufti , namely Fahreddin Acemi 's rout of the Hurufis and his taking the chief seat in the debate on both of which incidents find parallels in the careers of later Muftis . |
| 14 | This superstition harks back to when a drunken trooper inadvertently cursed the Mauthe Dhoog , only to be struck dumb and die three days later , a fan referred to by Sir Walter Scott in his Lay of the Last Minstrel : |
| 15 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 16 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 17 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 18 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 19 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 20 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 21 | At all centres we complete your logbooks at the end of the holiday , and most beginners are happily sailing on their own by the second week . |
| 22 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 23 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 24 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 25 | It is certainly not due to anything laid down in the egg or due to anything special about the first two divisions . |
| 26 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |
| 27 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |
| 28 | Aldridge went clear from a lobbed pass by Neil McNab and rounded keeper Ludek Miklosko for his first in the 17th minute . |
| 29 | So what did he do with his final , winning tap-in-putt for his par-5 on the 72nd hole ? |
| 30 | The amount of the tax rebate is at its highest during the last quarter of the tax year and it is obviously at its lowest during the first quarter . |