Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [art] [noun] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Now , I says I 'll get the police the next time !
2 However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award .
3 And you 'd got a little bit of plaster you , you could show the court the next morning , he was going to prison .
4 The five-year plan would make the plant the first of its size to meet the target of the Netherlands ' 20-year national environment plan .
5 In a classic piece of political misjudgment he even told his party conference in a speech that the poll tax would win the Tories the next election .
6 Then , she gathered , he would get the ferry the next morning , Saturday .
7 He deposited the sticky , oozing mess under his seat with a nasty feeling of satisfaction at the inconvenience it would cause the cleaners the next morning .
8 But he is bold enough to suggest that this Budget , and the three-year-plan laid down within it , will win the Tories the next election .
9 Keep listening until you are sure that you will recognise the sounds the next time you hear them , then withdraw the spade and push it back into the ground some feet away .
10 Even at this awkward moment , I doubt that the performance of the economy alone , or even chiefly , will lose the Conservatives the next election .
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