Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 2 | of manufacturing jobs were lost in Barry in my constituency in the last Conservative recession , manufacturing growth is down 3.7 per cent . |
| 3 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 4 | So if the president of my company calls from Allentown and says Ricky I 'd like to see you in my office on the thirtieth , I do n't say I 'm sorry Steve , it 's catch up day , I say what time would be convenient for you Sir , because you know , otherwise I , I 'd be looking for a job . |
| 5 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 6 | I wonder if I could offer you a cup of coffee in my department within the next couple of minutes ? ’ |
| 7 | I stayed in my room on the eighth floor for most of the day , just waiting . |
| 8 | I jammed one finger in my ear against the fourth circle of hell that had just broken loose . |
| 9 | He admitted : ‘ There was doubt in my mind after the third round and I would have preferred to win by going head to head with Nick Price . |
| 10 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 11 | A third Free Presbyterian minister said : ‘ Perhaps the main reason [ for leaving the Orange Order ] was that in 1969 I was saved by the grace of God and therefore felt that I could not sit and be associated with members of the Orange and Black while they consumed alcohol in their meetings on the 12th and 13th mornings each July . ’ |
| 12 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 13 | LEG spinner Ian Salisbury , left out of the England tour squad for India , sent Lancashire crashing to one of the worst championship defeats in their history in the last Old Trafford match of the season against Sussex . |
| 14 | But after they had lost their first five wickets with only 134 on the board , Rutherford and Blain swung the balance back in their favour in the last 45 minutes , adding 34 runs to take their side agonisingly close to squaring the series after a humiliating innings and 60-run defeat in Christchurch . |
| 15 | It is expressed in their myth of the first human child , or " adam " . |
| 16 | Whether their sites shifted or not , everywhere towns became transformed by the great churches and the smaller shrines built both near their centres and in their suburbs in the fourth and fifth centuries . |
| 17 | Mr. Wakeham : In their response to the second special report from the House of Commons Select Committee on European Legislation , Session 1985–86 , the Government reaffirmed that they would endeavour to bring forward documents for debate at the earliest appropriate opportunity . |
| 18 | They gave away very little about themselves in their choice of the first Christmas presents . |
| 19 | The United Provinces had a Scottish brigade in their service until the last years of the century . |
| 20 | ‘ Give them suitable opposition that will help in their development towards the next World Cup . |
| 21 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 22 | To medieval man it meant a process reserved for the preservation of the corpses of the important , so that they might sleep uncorrupted in their tombs until the Last Day , when body and soul would be reunited to appear before God for His judgement . |
| 23 | Of Leicestershire 's 370 medieval settlements no less than sixty have been deserted and many others are now much smaller than they were in their heyday during the thirteenth and early-fourteenth century . |
| 24 | Damian asked during a lull in their lovemaking on the second day . |
| 25 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 26 | The criticism is then seen as being political and if the electors of Greater London disapprove of what is done in their name by their representatives , the remedy lies in their hands at the next election . |
| 27 | As Argyll and lord James said , in their reply of the 13th in which they openly declared it to be the role of the nobles and council ‘ to provide that the ancient liberties of the realm be freed from tyranny of strangers ( and ) to abolish ( God assisting us ) all manifest idolatry and maintainers ’ , he had not been ‘ so full and plain as we expected ’ . |
| 28 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |
| 29 | They also observed a maternal hypoglycaemic response in their subjects in the third trimester . |
| 30 | A guaranteed investment of over £14 million in their homes over the next 10 years . |