Example sentences of "in the [num ord] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
| 2 | ‘ In the first split second you experience a feeling of numbness , of complete collapse within your chest and a cold wave of fright … the needles of the automatic printer drums and the monitoring instruments are swinging in all directions . ’ |
| 3 | I learned this principle in the first big event I was involved in : Billy Graham 's Crusade at Maine Road Stadium in Manchester in 1961 . |
| 4 | In the first investigative session I ever ran I expected pupils to produce a quadratic relationship , or at least a verbal description of one , from a problem involving lines and their intersections . |
| 5 | As Richard and I chronicled in our ‘ book of the ads ’ You Got an Ology ? ’ in the first two-week shoot we made ten commercials . |
| 6 | He led a field of seven candidates in an inconclusive first round , and in the second round run-off he defeated Oleg Lobov , currently the second secretary of the Armenian CP and regarded as a pro-Gorbachev reformer . |
| 7 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 8 | For example , in the solo waltz the dancer marks the three beats of a waltz in roughly every other bar , usually with her feet , but in the third musical phrase she poses in arabesque and marks the beat by gradually lowering her hand three times . |
| 9 | ‘ In the last financial year we were delighted to be the second most profitable group in the network , ’ he explained . |
| 10 | In the last general election it was encouraging to find where contest had taken place that enthusiasm for cooperative representation had been considerably increased , and in addition the opportunity of bringing before the general public the benefits of cooperation has resulted in a very material addition to the cooperative forces in the district . |
| 11 | In the last academic year it published 23 major articles , and produced 26 papers in its Discussion Paper series . |
| 12 | Twice in the last half century they have plunged us into British wars and twice have they taken our finest youth from under our beds and from behind our hams . |