Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 2 | There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time . |
| 3 | For instance the first two letters of this chapter , ‘ It ’ , are at this moment sitting in RAM locations 6446 and 6447 of my computer , which has 65,536 RAM locations altogether . |
| 4 | In view of the grave nature of the crime he appeared in Inveraray before Mr John Campbell and a jury for sentence the next day . |
| 5 | The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period . |
| 6 | and more for completion the third application is this , yesterday Mr referred in his evidence |
| 7 | They and the coffin were safely back — the coffin in the Volvo , its outline well disguised by an old car cover , and he would bring it round after dark the next evening . |
| 8 | And birdie it he did , the climax to an emotional last round in which he smashed his putter on a trash box after three-putting the 11th hole . |
| 9 | Now she left with plastic bags full of washing and returned after lunch the next day with Hugh 's shirts , Molly 's dresses and the children 's T-shirts and jeans beautifully ironed . |
| 10 | After GCSE the next step for many young people is to take A-levels . |
| 11 | After breakfast the next day , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 12 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 13 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 14 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 15 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 16 | Apart from her anxiety over Jennifer 's meeting David again , Rachel had been looking forward to Family Day , but when she arrived for work the next morning the preparations were the furthest thing from her mind . |
| 17 | ‘ Support one day can turn into lack of support the next . ’ |
| 18 | In such a climate of change the 29th Edition Rules for Automatic Sprinkler Systems can only indicate that required sprinkler protection for broad categories of commodity . |
| 19 | I understand from 's nephew that the electric convector in the sitting room is dead , and shall speak to about some kind of replacement , though there is of course the second convector in the bedroom which should suffice at this time of year . |
| 20 | Of course the first prerequisite was that he should be able to know his colleagues ' views before deciding whether or not he agreed with them , so he needed access to their report before it was officially released . |
| 21 | Richardson is not of course the first great English novelist , but he is the first to be interested in houses , for the characters created by his predecessor , Defoe , and his contemporary , Fielding , are too often on the move to develop much awareness of their living space . |
| 22 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 23 | Of course the first thing we have to find out is whether your heart is in it ? ’ |
| 24 | Alright then , come on then you know I forgot I did n't have me keys with me this morning , of course the first one |
| 25 | Until a Summons is served , one is in blissful ignorance as to whether it will be under the Optional Procedure or not , unless of course the third party correspondents are charitable enough to advise you . |
| 26 | And of course the third group of students write and say , ‘ Yes , I applied last year to do Biology , I want to do it , and I 'm really clear I want to do it . ’ |
| 27 | Well when they was feeding these up , you could have one for yourself as long as you let the government have one , see , and er , er , of course the next to feed a pig up , see , but er , I mean if you could fed them properly you could erm , perhaps get one ready in er , six to nine months you see , and er , which would be a , a good bacon pig like , if you fed it er , correctly . |
| 28 | They used to , it were very nice shop in those days and er then of course the next door to that fish shop , the other half going towards was . |
| 29 | But this is the crew and the picture that flew to Colesfield on the tenth of October of forty three and we had nothing out of the ordinary to report about that mission and that was the Gdynia Mission the day before , it certainly stands out on our minds because of the length of it and then of course the next one on the fourteenth of October to Schweinfurt which changed our lives . |
| 30 | So of course the next question comes well well how do you manage to put it down , I guess ? hands we 'll come on to that . |