Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is free to sample the delights of the city but is forbidden to pass through the third gate of ruby and gold into the Inner Seas . |
| 2 | I want to refer to the third Sessional Order , Mr. Speaker , dealing with access — the last one to which you referred . |
| 3 | The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter . |
| 4 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 5 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 6 | In 1970 the Heath government sought to fit in the third piece of the Plowden jigsaw — the efficiency function . |
| 7 | Brendan Ormsby 's transfer from Leeds United to Cardiff City was called off yesterday after the defender decided he did not want to play in the Third Division . |
| 8 | In fact everything was going to plan until the third day when the crowd got to him . |
| 9 | True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person . |
| 10 | Microsoft is developing a version of Visual C++ for Windows NT which is scheduled to ship in the third quarter . |
| 11 | We may have to wait until the third one . |
| 12 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 13 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 14 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 15 | He fought back the word ‘ sorry ’ , which was threatening to erupt for the third time . |
| 16 | We were asked to sit in the third and fourth rows and the lower school children filed in . |
| 17 | The females are allowed to mate on the third day ( 6 ) . |
| 18 | If Morrissey ca n't be allowed to write in the third person using a character , without people automatically assuming the views expressed are his own , then we 've got problems too . |
| 19 | Qannaas ' trainer , BBC commentator and former royal jockey Bill Smith , said the horse is likely to attempt to win for the third time this season tomorrow ( Sat ) at Parham . |
| 20 | The date of construction of the wall , which has not been established with any precision , would seem to lie in the third century . |
| 21 | Progress towards the phased return to civilian rule continued in 1990 with the registration in May of the two political parties which would be allowed to operate in the Third Republic , the lifting of the ban on party politics at local level in June , and the holding of local elections in December [ see p. 37908 ] . |
| 22 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 23 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 24 | Die Gruenen seem poised to step into the third party gap . |