Example sentences of "[pron] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | And McGrindle , very matter of fact though drunk as usual : I have sixteen children , seven by my first marriage , four by my second , my second wife had two of her own , that makes thirteen , and three from my third , sixteen , and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity . |
| 2 | On the Saturday of my third weekend at the Palace Hotel I looked their address up in one of the telephone directories in my local library . |
| 3 | Chris Patten Without the Winter of Discontent , I would now be running my third government . |
| 4 | In my third memory my mother takes me to see Chaplin 's Limelight . |
| 5 | Then my third uncle got married . |
| 6 | Each week I try to do at least three duties , and Friday 30 June was my third that week . |
| 7 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
| 8 | My third or fourth customer was a man of about thirty , with the athletic , boyish , curly-haired handsomeness of David Gower , the cricketer , or Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead of Lulu . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope it will be my third time lucky , ’ said Bruno in a reference to his unsuccessful world title challenges against Tim Witherspoon and Mike Tyson . |
| 10 | This is my third posting in London . |
| 11 | My third point is to remind you that fixing a criterion for non-intervention amounts to setting the moral agenda for the treatment of VLBW babies . |
| 12 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 13 | In my third term in the Sixth Form , almost every girl in the form was made a prefect except me . |
| 14 | Other officers go through their careers without being injured but this was my third set of injuries in three years . |
| 15 | I was ultimately awarded colours but in my third year lost my place after a sharp attack of influenza which weakened my confidence . |
| 16 | At cricket I played in the second eleven , and was its captain in my third year . |
| 17 | This brings me to my third assumption . |
| 18 | My third friend was very scared and wanted to go at once , feeling that we were in definite danger from something . |
| 19 | At about this time my third sister was born . |
| 20 | Now , gentle reader , I expect at my third reference to you as ‘ gentle reader ’ you 're starting to feel rather less than gentle towards me . |
| 21 | Leap of Faith will be my third completely straight movie and I want to do more of that and less comedy . |
| 22 | This brings me to my third game , the ‘ social contract ’ game . |
| 23 | My third recording , also from Decca , seems to get everything right from the engineering point of view . |
| 24 | He has been at Salisbury for 21 years — ‘ I 'm on my third bishop , my fourth dean and my fifth clerk ’ . |
| 25 | I could usually rely on George Polley , a committed Socialist and one or two other outspoken councillors , like Mark Finn and Eddie Quill , to provide me with my third of a column of copy . |
| 26 | I have given my third and fourth preferences to candidates who , if not exactly " worthless " , know as well as I do they have no chance of being elected . |
| 27 | True , if understood to relate to candidates as persons : my third preference for Brawny can never count against my first preference for Beefy . |
| 28 | If the Fruity Party fields three candidates in a constituency election ; if I give my first preference to Apple and second to Banana ; if I give my third preference not to Cherry but to Hazel of the Nutty Party ; and if finally , that third preference becomes an effective vote , it will unquestionably be a vote against the Fruity Party that I was supporting with my first and second preferences . |
| 29 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 30 | , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind ! |