Example sentences of "[pron] [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | In turning to my second strand of educational research I am encouraged by Reid , Hopkins and Holly ( 1988 ) : |
2 | ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks . |
3 | This is my second Way of Life seminar , so I have missed discussion which may have taken place at earlier seminars over the definition of ‘ way of life ’ . |
4 | But , of course , it does n't always work ; I was listening to my second recording of the Liszt Sonata about a year ago , and found things there that did not satisfy me . |
5 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
6 | Whilst I had changed into my second set of wedding clothes Margaret had explained that the Remington-Harts had bought a country house in Downshurst in the last year . |
7 | I tried eating a sandwich with my second cup of tea and I just about managed it . |
8 | My second disaster of the trip happened in the very minute of taking the camper van onto the road . |
9 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
10 | This is only my second season of fishing and I 'm learning all the time . |
11 | It may be that in your hallway is my second image of prayer , the telephone , that irritating friend whose shrill cry has to be answered . |
12 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
13 | At the time of going to Budapest I was still only in my second month of strict diet and had another five weeks left . |
14 | I 'm in my thirteenth season of senior rugby , I thoroughly enjoy every moment and I would not with to play for any other club than Watsonians . |
15 | This is my 19th series of Wish You Were Here … ? and I 've seen television all over the world , yet I still think ours is the best . |
16 | I am now on my fourth course of treatment . ’ |
17 | I am now on my fourth course of treatment . ’ |
18 | And I could hardly force down my fourth slice of toast and marmalade . |
19 | A little skimmer bream is my fourth fish of the day and the first I have had to net . |
20 | I finished my fifteenth bottle of Bud and pushed my plate away . |
21 | ‘ Not until after I 've had my first sip of coffee , ’ she said . |
22 | ‘ You , the last remaining of my First Hierarchy of Hell . |
23 | I celebrated that night by ordering my first pint of beer and lighting up my first Woodbine . |
24 | My first memories of a Leeds match were standing on a soapbox with my dad , when we scored a goal . |
25 | My first memories of Walsall Airport were when Walsall Flying Club was in being before World War Two . |
26 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
27 | DURING my first year of A levels I noticed a swelling in one of my testes . |
28 | I think I 'd had I finished my breakfast when , no I think you just came just as I was about to take my first mouthful of cereal . |
29 | Damien , 18 : ‘ My first memory of nuns is getting lines at school for making scones instead of buns in cookery ! |
30 | I do n't know when it started , but my first memory of it was when I was about sixteen . |