Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He ca n't ask them , so he is doing the next best thing .
2 ‘ But he 's birdied the first four of the second nine .
3 He 's represented the first fifteen at Stowe School near Buckingham for the past five years .
4 But he 's done the next best thing by getting himself a uniform and a car .
5 Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway …
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