Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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31 He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night .
32 I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 .
33 If you dive after a surface interval of more than 10 minutes , the Solution will consider it a second dive , and dive time will start again from zero .
34 ‘ You could always consider it a last request . ’
35 Could she survive it a second time ?
36 Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day .
37 I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes .
38 I began to move more freely around the island again , and built myself a third house .
39 I want to know what the first three digits are . ’
40 Once more a terrible curiosity overcame him , to know what the third girl looked like .
41 Do you know what a first class stamp is ?
42 What was , does anybody know what the first term was ?
43 " I do n't know what the next step will be but someone will make the breakthrough " said Cadogan .
44 ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring .
45 It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century .
46 It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change .
47 It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning .
48 It 's fucking madness , I 'll ge I mean it kills me the next day , it 's madness , I do n't know why I do it .
49 have n't seen him , it 's Dr I think that 's attended me the last time .
50 Do they give them a second thought ?
51 I did n't give them a second glance .
52 The men lounging beside the gate did n't even give them a second glance .
53 A fisherman unloading boxes of fish , shimmering in the arc lights of the pier , told me the next one was not until midday the following day .
54 The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer .
55 He tells them that Claudia has written them a last message .
56 ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby .
57 Veiled women carrying home shopping did n't give me a second glance .
58 My movements up to this had been quite natural , and if I could continue to make her think I was unaware of her presence , she would possibly give me a second chance .
59 Steve White says its the first stepping stone of a month , where they have all the top teams and it 's very much in their own hands .
60 Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) .
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