Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 2 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 3 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 4 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 5 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |
| 6 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 7 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 8 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 9 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 10 | I 'm not gon na have it , you 're gon na say , give it to the third caravan parked on the beach on the left hand side of the loo |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't see anything beyond the third target , ’ he said . |
| 12 | She followed him to the third floor , then along the gallery to a closed door . |
| 13 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 14 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 15 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 16 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 17 | If I do n't pass it at the third time I 'm just gon na give up cos I 'm not failing more |
| 18 | This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ? |
| 19 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |
| 20 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 21 | Dr Groome had hooked Susan up to Yggdrasil and floated her in the third tank . |
| 22 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 23 | And to insert it between the third and fourth word can change the meaning rather dramatically . |
| 24 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 25 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 26 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 27 | His swarming attacks gradually overwhelmed wright who took two knock downs and a standing count before the referee halted it in the third . |
| 28 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 29 | This brings me to the third general quality of successful replicators : copying-fidelity . |
| 30 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |