Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Haynes and Best put on 113 for the first wicket it all became academic , the main interest being whether Best would get his hundred . |
| 2 | In terms of your research on the the action book itself , or th , or the reports or whatever you said , sorry , there 's nineteen on the first floor you say ? |
| 3 | From 870 to the mid-eleventh century it was a Byzantine colony where the Eastern Emperors held power despite Saracen attacks . |
| 4 | A ten For the next hour I took delivery of many additional purchases , the vast majority of which I could n't remember purchasing . |
| 5 | In one of the first cases he had taken , in 1923 , it must have been , the year after he came back — Fantina was still a baby — a widow had accused her neighbour of killing her cow out of spite . |
| 6 | And one of the first birds we saw ? |
| 7 | Honey Come Back was one of the first singles I ever bought , and I always loved the way he played . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ One of the first memos I received after my release , when I was in Germany , was a one-line note ‘ Welcome Home — Terry ’ . |
| 9 | It is one of the first operas I conducted when I went to Ulm . |
| 10 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 11 | One of the first things we need to do if we wish to consider sexuality without personal hang-ups getting in the way is to get over our revulsion against sexual terms . |
| 12 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 13 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 14 | ‘ One of the first things we think about when we 're asked to design a playground is position . |
| 15 | He told People writer Victor Olliver : ‘ One of the first things we did in 1976 was to repaint the China Corridor . |
| 16 | Hoping to get the answer that one of the first things we did no rising was to wash , I was a little disconcerted when my same little lady piped up ‘ weight ourselves ’ . |
| 17 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 18 | When you buy a valuable piece of equipment , like a new car or furniture for your home , one of the first things you do , is to insure it in case of accidental damage . |
| 19 | If you get a job as a shop assistant or checkout operator , one of the first things you will learn is till procedure . |
| 20 | ONE OF THE first things you must consider when producing your first R/C helicopter is which type of radio equipment to use . |
| 21 | So , one of the first things you notice in Northern cities hit by unemployment is babies , lots of babies , with very young parents . |
| 22 | It 's one of the first things you have to face up to . |
| 23 | One of the first things you 'll realise is that you work for an organisation that has to react and respond rapidly to changing circumstances . |
| 24 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 25 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 26 | ‘ One of the first things I had to learn by heart when I went to Maythorpe House was a poem by an Englishman , Laurence Binyon . |
| 27 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 28 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 30 | It was one of the first things she put on the wall when they re-decorated the house . |