Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its sound provided the first syllable of Poirot 's name ‘ poir ’ , and for the second one need look no further than the French word ‘ perdreau ’ , meaning ‘ a young partridge ’ . |
| 2 | Yes I just want to explain very quickly for people who do n't know what we 're talking about , Leslie , because a lot of people join us by the minute , er , MPs on the Commons ' Heritage Committee , have said , they think it 's a very good idea , that if you have more than one telly , you should pay twenty pounds for the second one , and who knows , twenty pounds for the third , and twenty pounds extra for the fourth . |
| 3 | As for the second one your use of rhyme pushes back the frontiers of english literature . |
| 4 | because there 's no sound feed and altogether , oh yes , for the second , we , we did two plays and for the second one , they did n't produce a script |
| 5 | Absolutely , does it make sense for , for husband and wife over there to wait for the second one to have a heart attack , or the second one to have a cancer before it pays out , |
| 6 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 7 | ‘ I shut my eyes for the second one , ’ joked MacDonald . |
| 8 | So , while for the first of these two failures Owen may be criticised , for the second he must be excused . |
| 9 | This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care . |
| 10 | I am going to light another candle now , for the first one is guttering in gold . |
| 11 | This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care . |
| 12 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 13 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 14 | Er the butty paid you , you see , out of his tin , what he thought fit and he gave me ten shillings for the first one I done , first day I done , and I told me Dad when I got home , he says , Ten shillings ? |
| 15 | The upshot was that Phaeon Yachts would incorporate Kevin Seymour 's proposed detail changes in a new yacht , provided that he placed an order for the first one ! |
| 16 | Yeah , but they only pay for the first one . |
| 17 | Around eigh , nothing for the first one , and eighteen pounds after that one . |
| 18 | You want something that 's universal for the first one . |
| 19 | Two letters , one for the first one for the fifteenth . |
| 20 | For the , for the , for the first one where it was just three pound sixty that was pretty easy was n't it ? |
| 21 | Oh you get one mark for the first one |
| 22 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 23 | That 's for the thirtieth you 're flying into Dave 's ? |
| 24 | And another twelfth for the third one and another twelfth from the fourth . |
| 25 | Of the three known strong cases for X-ray binaries containing black holes ( Cyg X-1 , LMC X-3 and A0620–00 ) , the first two show no QPO , and for the third there is no information available . |
| 26 | Andy got them all with his first shot except for the last one . |
| 27 | And the same for the last one brilliant . |
| 28 | No title for the last one . |
| 29 | Except for the last one , which is a track on a Robyn Hitchcock LP . |
| 30 | except for the last one which I missed off the last time . |