Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] the [num] " in BNC.

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1 For my money the 1954 version has more edge to it .
2 We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home .
3 And everybody else seemed to get on it so I thought , oh , just my luck the two five twos had broken down .
4 Behind my back the four smokestacks of the power station pointed upwards , the threshold of an unfinished building of inconceivably vast and dreadful size .
5 In my view the one disadvantage still to be overcome is that the receiver is not as waterproof as it really needs to be .
6 Sometimes Soutine , who was living in the village , came over to enjoy a good chicken dinner , and after eating their fill the two artists reproached their host for living in such luxury .
7 She wondered if her fixation with Ace was because in her mind the two of them were inextricably linked .
8 For the first time in its history the 1935 Annual Conference of the ILP was attended by a fraternal delegate from the Communist Party , Harry Pollitt , who put forward the policy of " organizational unity " , that is of merging both Parties , now equal in membership , into a single unit .
9 I prised out of her bag the two swatches and she agreed the measurement of the rows of the two swatches was very different ! !
10 After their arrest the three accused made police statements in which they admitted to having gone " wilding " on the night in question , a term meaning the perpetration of motiveless assaults .
11 Beethoven is the historical fulcrum ; in his work the two aspects are perfectly balanced , and the uniqueness of the individual musical idea is organically integrated into a socially comprehensible but freely worked-out totality .
12 In overall charge of the Empress 's Household was her Grand Master , General Count Tascher de la Pagerie , descendant of the family of the Empress Josephine , who had under his control the five court chamberlains plus a private secretary and a librarian .
13 At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura .
14 We must take as our basis the two vectors representing the two bond stretching motions , so that the transformation matrices showing the effects of the symmetry operations will be 2 × 2 matrices ; only the trace of the matrix is needed to generate the character Xv .
15 So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into .
16 and we 've already given up the essentials in your life the two nine one seven per year which of these will be left to be paid ?
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