Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 2 | Because you were born under the first sign of the Zodiac , you tend to need excitement , adventure , action and results . |
| 3 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 4 | Today , half of the dwellings you see around you were built after the Second World War and two out of three are owner-occupied . |
| 5 | Maelmuire has nothing to fear from you now , nor have I. What was that you were saying about the next generation — and where and what they would rule ? |
| 6 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
| 7 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 8 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
| 9 | True to form we were disqualified at the first change-over between David and me . |
| 10 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 11 | On Thursday we were taken out to see a revolutionary opera , and it was quite an experience , especially as we were sitting in the 2nd row of the stalls , within ear-splitting distance of the gongs and drums which play a large part in the orchestral accompaniment . |
| 12 | The finances were in the hands of one of our most scrupulous colleagues , but not even her careful accounting could alter the fact that if we were to survive beyond the first month we would need to raise some money . |
| 13 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 14 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 15 | I then resolution two which is continuing the process that we were introduced to the last Synod and the previous Synod consideration of the endless discussion document on Christian initiation . |
| 16 | But in a situation where we were left with the second E I P and we had districts preparing district wide plans and as Mr in his submission has said , he intends to remove the present article fourteen , direction , we are in real chaos . |
| 17 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 18 | Michael 's sister Susan Priestley , 39 , said last night : ‘ We were told after the last appeal that this one was n't likely to succeed but we live in hope . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 20 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 21 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 22 | The next year they were followed by the first Clayton Volunteers ( named after the Reverend ( Tubby Clayton , founder of TocH ) . |
| 23 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 24 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 26 | But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered . |
| 27 | erm Southwell centenary , which is next year if you recall , erm we 've at a previous meeting I raised this erm the point with councillors that next year is our centenary of our formation , we do n't have any archives unfortunately , er they were lost in the last sort of decade . |
| 28 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 29 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 30 | There is much less evidence for the fifth century than for the fourth , when Philip and Alexander attracted attention to Macedon , but recently discovered gravestones show that by 400–350 Macedonians had good Greek names ( which they were given in the fifth century , of course ) like Xenokrates , Pierion and Kleonymos ( M. B. Hatzopoulos and L. D. Loukopoulos ( 1980 ) Philip of Macedon , plates 109–10 on pp. 206–7 ) . |