Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessie Young fired my imagination with her tales of warfare , politics and terror at Berwick , and fanned in my heart the first flames of a lifelong fascination with Scotland 's history . |
| 2 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 3 | In my case the third effect is that someone shouts ‘ Stop leaning forward ! ’ |
| 4 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 5 | I remember feeling sad one minute and shoving a giant cookie in my mouth the next . ’ |
| 6 | But things turned out as they were bound to do and not as I expected ; there was a typically whole gastrula on my dish the next morning , differing only by its small size from a normal one ; and this small but whole gastrula developed into a whole and typical larva … |
| 7 | It is to my knowledge the first time that an ‘ in-depth ’ feature has been written about their service with the RAF and brought back many poignant memories for me for I was , to quote your September issue , ‘ one of the batch of National Service gunners posted to RAF Coningsby ’ . |
| 8 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 9 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 10 | my Lord er , to only just final conclusions my Lord the first conclusion is that nothing in community law , nothing in the directives in the insurance companies act can be pointed to by which grants powers to them to regulate the insurance markets . |
| 11 | My Lord the first er issue is as a matter of English law and the English law position , my Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship I took you to the case , we looked at the statements of er the House of Lords and er Lord in particular with whom the other Law Lords agreed , my Lord do you wish to go back to the fact again ? |
| 12 | My Lord the second bundle , part A bundle two contains the witness statements . |
| 13 | We were dyeing popcorn , of all things , in two bowls of red and yellow Dolly-dye in my sink the next morning when I heard John moving about . |
| 14 | Right , since I 've taken over my territory the first thing I 've seen , I 've got to educate my customers as in paperwork . |
| 15 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 16 | But ask me about Boy George 's first time on the show — looking gorgeous in a dress , with make-up and ribbons through his dreadlock extensions — and I can still remember the fevered speculation about his ambiguous sexuality that gripped my school the next day . |
| 17 | Apparently when they pulled me out of the river and bashed the water out of my belly the first thing I said as I came round was , ‘ Riddled with diseases , I 'm sure ’ and the crew broke up in this hysterical laughter . |
| 18 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 19 | After their dismissal the first and sixth defendants drafted a business plan for the purpose of raising finance to set up a Bureau de Change business in competition with the plaintiffs . |
| 20 | From its inception the Second Empire resembled a splendid military pageant , with its colourful regiments whose uniforms were ornamented with sabretaches , aiguillettes and gleaming leather . |
| 21 | Well if you 've almost drowned her one week I should think you could quite well bring yourself to put a spider in her desk the next week said Daryl . |
| 22 | The lucky winner has the privilege of sending their leader the first congratulatory telegram , announcing the success of the latest project . |
| 23 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 24 | Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths . |
| 25 | With the huge funds we shall place at its disposal the next problem Gorbachev will face is the collapse of his empire — and we will pick up the pieces … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I am the centre of my existence , ’ Clare sang , as if chanting a psalm , pitching her voice an octave lower , as she pushed Josh to her playgroup the next morning . |
| 27 | Sails and rigging trailing over the side , and bows noticeably down , the first ship swung broadside on to the current of the river , and into its flank the second crashed , both drifting towards the pole-marked shallows of the sand-banks . |
| 28 | The aim of the game is to see which of the teams can fill up their glass the first . |
| 29 | As Simone de Beauvoir argued in her book The Second Sex , man has constructed woman as ‘ the Other ’ , as the one who is not oneself . |
| 30 | Arlie Hochschild in her book The Second Shift interviewed 10 couples over 12 years , from 1976 to 1988 . |