Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eggs so comma but all of them just before the last one . |
| 2 | When industries were first nationalized , many of them immediately after the Second World War , the government had two concerns . |
| 3 | The readership questionnaire recently carried out raised a lot of comments ( of which more in the next issue ) . |
| 4 | I hope to see most of you personally over the next few weeks but if I do n't then can I say ‘ Thanks ’ and ‘ All the Best for a healthy and prosperous future . ’ |
| 5 | But I did n't think of anything else since the first moment I laid eyes on you , either . ’ |
| 6 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |
| 7 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 8 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 9 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 10 | We should be getting at least to March all supplied from us now for the next three or four months it should all be from us . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 12 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 13 | If we 've not answered your question in this programme , I shall be writing to you directly during the next few days . |
| 14 | I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week . |
| 15 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 16 | The style expressed their mood and artistic ideas and they clung to it well into the thirteenth century . |
| 17 | It was also given in-depth coverage on television and radio that evening , with News at Ten running it as the lead story in the first half of the programme and coming back to it again in the second . |
| 18 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 19 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ Even when we had a right go at them late in the second half , they were still strong . |
| 21 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 22 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |