Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 2 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 3 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 4 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 5 | As I slept off the last of my baggitis , sweet visions of castles , fountains and autumn leaves drifted through my dreams . |
| 6 | Her hands were shaking as she reached for the first of the envelopes . |
| 7 | She died on the thirteenth of March . |
| 8 | Half an hour later , the book slipped out of her hand and she fell into the first of the night 's uneasy periods of slumber . |
| 9 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 10 | She drained off the last of her tepid coffee . |
| 11 | If we decided through the first of these two methods , which begins with moral assessment of each individual 's record one by one , that each shareholder was indeed responsible for a share of the loss , then we might well report our conclusion in the language of personification . |
| 12 | We did , and off to London we went on the ninth of July , for the judging , at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 13 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 14 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
| 15 | ‘ They talked about the first of May , ’ he said . |
| 16 | They sat in the last of the sun on the morning-room steps . |
| 17 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 18 | He admitted in the first of the series that providing serfs with land seemed to pose insuperable practical difficulties , but in the last he argued " that the acquisition of landed property on the part of the peasants can be accomplished durably and even quickly " . |
| 19 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 20 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 21 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 22 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 23 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 24 | ’ If it happened on the 2nd of June this year , I 'd die . ’ |
| 25 | Wordsworth felt that he wanted to return to England , settle down , and never go abroad again ; as he stated in the last of the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , written two years later : |
| 26 | He died on the 23rd of April , in the year 1616 . |
| 27 | With this drop of ink at the end of my pen , I will show you the roomy workshop of Jonathan surge , carpenter and builder in the village of Hayslope , as it appeared on the 18th of June , in the year of Our Lord , 1799 . |