Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 2 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 3 | As Penelope mounted further to the third floor where she and the other lodger had their rooms , she was relieved to hear the limpid notes of a recorder playing ‘ Brother James 's Air ’ . |
| 4 | She was not squeamish about using her considerable social influence in support of her son Winston ; she pressed his writing on publishers , sought for favourable reviewers , and appealed directly to the third Marquess of Salisbury , then prime minister , to permit him to join the expedition to the Sudan under Sir H. Herbert Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , q.v . ) . |
| 5 | But perceptions that the Alliance was running second in the polls collapsed in the second week ; and voters ' assessment of Alliance chances of winning a majority or even holding the balance of power dropped sharply in the third week ; while television 's sharp switch to focus on the two-Party Labour versus Conservative battle occurred in the fourth week . |
| 6 | Moon , who led by two strokes half-way through the third round of the Italian Open , made birdies at all five of the long holes . |
| 7 | Listen what the prophet says there in the third chapter , he says , this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain , the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind therefore I have hope . |
| 8 | Roberto played beautifully in the third round and we progressed to two strokes ahead of the field after he shot a 67 . |
| 9 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 10 | America wants the Bank to change its ways , and lend less to the third world 's governments and more to its private businesses . |
| 11 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 12 | But in a frantic third period , Kevin Conway fired home in the third minute to equalise Wojciech Tkacz 's first period opener . |
| 13 | ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . ) |
| 14 | At this stage we should look briefly at the third and final possibility , and with it some cases we shall not be discussing in this book . |
| 15 | The reader might like to check that , if the second and third digits are used instead of the third and fourth , there will be seven synonyms instead of eight ( 00 , 01 , 01 , 04 , 09 , 12 , 12 ) . |
| 16 | With urban land prices rising rapidly across the Third World , construction companies build high-rise units mainly to maximise their return on what they spend on land . |
| 17 | The war in the Gulf was a reminder of the instability along NATO 's southern flank ; long-range missiles are spreading dangerously in the third world ; Eastern Europe is never short of alarming political wobbles . |
| 18 | Two of three jaundiced patients underwent endoscopic sphincterotomy to remove duct stones after successful percutaneous cholecystolithotomy and the stone passed spontaneously in the third . |
| 19 | Two have been built already , and work is continuing furiously on the third . |
| 20 | Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy . |
| 21 | Remarkably , Cambridge let the initiative dribble away in the third quarter despite spending most of that period camped in the Oxford half . |
| 22 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 23 | A further delay ensued and it was not until July that the two great armies finally set forth on the third anniversary of the Battle of Hattin . |
| 24 | Settled early in the third century BC and survived the Punic Wars . |
| 25 | if money for investment is made payable to the firm , it should be returned to the client to be made payable to the correct third party or , if this is not possible due to extreme circumstances , the cheque should be endorsed and forwarded immediately to the third party |
| 26 | He worked consistently on the third act , and by the end of the year he had finished a draft of the entire play . |
| 27 | It was while Cecilia was running upstairs for the third time to tell Tina she must get up , she really must or she would be late for school , that she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll . |
| 28 | RECORD profits from international cigarette sales and a dramatic recovery at Eagle Star insurance helped BAT Industries surge ahead in the third quarter . |
| 29 | GRAHAM GOOCH 's Indian tour of misery reached a new low yesterday as England 's batting slumped again in the third and final Test in Bombay . |
| 30 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |