Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 So , while for the first of these two failures Owen may be criticised , for the second he must be excused .
2 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 .
3 That 's for the thirtieth you 're flying into Dave 's ?
4 Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for .
5 They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins .
6 The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty .
7 But I I er remember Margaret , my wife when she had the er the last one which is a a gap of about ten years between the third you know , and the fourth child
8 He had been keenly interested in the first : about the second he was much intrigued .
9 Exams and erm she was about the first I think and there was erm somebody else who wanted to take a course in erm Youth Leadership but erm , very quickly the numbers increased till the time I left of course we , we were dealing with thousands
10 What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling
11 As an example of the first we can cite pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs .
12 This was the first poem Dana showed me , and one of the first I reworked with him .
13 One of the first he had received from Sloane reported on a new hothouse at Chelsea and listed the exotics already growing there .
14 David 's was one of the first she organised , but Marie was impressed with the ceremony .
15 I remember Gary , Gary it was one of the first it was when he
16 After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots .
17 In the morning of the 23rd we went for our sessions on the ‘ sun-deck ’ .
18 The two decades on either side of 1500 were comparatively stable , with wages being only a little lower than in the middle of the fifteenth century , but by the second decade of the sixteenth they began to decline in face of increasing prices .
19 You 's have to get two pieces out of every sixth you 'd have to cut that down the middle .
20 Like the twelfth floor , glimpsed through the lift doors when the girls had got out , the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash , unlike the twelfth they were hung with pictures , not Old Masters but not Boots the chemists either — prints of hunting scenes and ships and a beautiful soft sunset over a bay that might have been St Ives — pictures deemed suitable for the Executive floor of a great international company .
21 Between the 4th and 15th and on or near the 27th you may face some extraordinary turns of events .
22 It 's fin okay if we 're looking for a thirtieth we 'd find thirty in there .
23 For a split-second they both froze .
24 Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ?
25 By combining this chapter with the last we can see why International Relations is so unsettled and so ready to try very varied approaches .
26 But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook .
27 Into the first I put the rich young owner 's suit , cashmere pullover and showy shirts and into the second the new younger-looking clothes for off-duty Tommy , jeans , sweatshirts , woolly hat and trainers .
28 In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman .
29 From the first she took her meals with Anna .
30 from the first it was apparent that it was not destined to be the faultless pageant which the stewards and controllers of the Kha-Khan 's household had both intended and arranged .
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