Example sentences of "say [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 2 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 3 | The same can be said of the next dog of great influence : Ch. |
| 4 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 5 | See , I think we 're obliged to now say something about erm these general skills , I think in light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks |
| 6 | And certainly not in the light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks that 's |
| 7 | All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario . |
| 8 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 9 | She remembered Elizabeth saying in the first weeks of her engagement to Alex , ‘ Do you know , you 're a rather intimidating couple ? ’ and she had been tempted to reply , ‘ Oh , we are , we are . ’ |
| 10 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 11 | Right , agree with what councillor and councillor have had to say about the first part of this . |
| 12 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 13 | This is what he said in the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 : |
| 14 | This is what he said in the Second Reading of the Maastricht bill : |
| 15 | This stance left Labour with nothing to say in the last week of its campaign and unwilling to communicate with anyone outside its own ranks , except through the media . |
| 16 | John Howell , for Anthony Hazell , the district auditor , said on the second day of a hearing into the legality of the council 's £6bn deals on the market : ‘ The council sold 49 gilt options on the mistaken belief that it was reducing its exposure . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 18 | ‘ You have done well , Wilson , ’ she said on the last day in Siena . |
| 19 | The commission 's chair , Peter Tucker , said at the first session on Nov. 13 that it would consider the issue of single- or multiparty forms of government . |
| 20 | When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 . |
| 21 | I said at the last meeting in Bungay in January that Bungay will cease to function within five years if something was n't done about it . |
| 22 | In view of the understandable difficulty that this inelegant and complex piece of legislation presented to these people , one must stand in awe at what one Member , Sir Michael Havers , had the temerity to say at the Third Reading of the Bill : ‘ One of the great ambitions of successive Parliaments is to simplify the laws that they pass and make them more readily understood . ’ |
| 23 | Does it not say in the first Sura of the Yasa that the Kha-Khan is above all the servant of his people ? ’ |