Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 2 | The first of the pros were already finishing their rounds on the 18th green . |
| 3 | The resources are allocated periodically at a review meeting which is preceded by individual project leaders assessing their own progress and estimating their needs for the next period . |
| 4 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 5 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 6 | It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time . |