Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 2 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 3 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 4 | He leaned across with the bottle , and she realised that she 'd almost drained her glass at the first attack . |
| 5 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 6 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 7 | Prehistoric archaeology has immensely broadened its approach over the last twenty years . |
| 8 | Benson 's at Brimscombe have transferred their production to the third world . |
| 9 | The ‘ Lancashire ’ coffin appears not to have made its début until the second quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular . |
| 11 | Essex Middleton cup manager Norman Groves has selected his side for the second trial match against Berkshire Under-35s to be played at the Esso BC , Abingdon , on Sunday morning . |
| 12 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 13 | Louis Dersingham was clearly annoyed to find himself having answered his sister in the first place . |
| 14 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 15 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 16 | The helium-3 is what Palmer was trying to produce as it was the presence of this gas in the atmosphere that had stimulated his idea in the first place , but detecting it would not be easy . |
| 17 | Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest also based his judgment on the nineteenth century jurisprudence . |
| 18 | He had dictated his resignation to the first secretary he encountered . |
| 19 | Can I can I say before I do launch into the amendment to Mr that you have played your card at the last election and the Leicestershire public has resoundedly given their answer to your particular policies . |
| 20 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 21 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 22 | A tendency to absorb smaller houses and to engage in a conscious policy of territorial expansion appears to have marked their behaviour in the second half of the thirteenth century . |
| 23 | He 'd never ceased to find fascination within its pages , for it was Maybellome 's intention to make an encyclopaedia listing all the flora , fauna , languages , sciences , ideas , moral perspectives — in short , anything that occurred to her — that had found their way from the Fifth Dominion , the Place of the Succulent Rock , through to the other worlds . |
| 24 | He had holed his putt on the 16th and was one shot ahead . |
| 25 | Peter Blake , the skipper of Steinlager 2 , has pinned his course to the 50th Parallel , doubtless in an effort to avoid the icebergs ; Dalton seems willing to take greater risks . |
| 26 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 27 | Johnson should have increased their initiative in the 26th minute , in a dazzling move started , and almost finished , by Turner . |
| 28 | The pure terephthalic acid business , based at wilton , has significantly increased its profitability over the last three years through improved control of product quality . |
| 29 | Here , within three minutes , Mark Bailey had rounded their defence for the first of his side 's dozen tries . |
| 30 | It has been known since the 1970s that the vehicles which have dramatically increased our mobility in the last 50 years have also constituted a grave danger . |