Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [art] third [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Cam Head the high point , and the hamlet of Starbotton the third point of the triangle .
2 We stepped into the cold marble hall and waited under a statue of George the Third masquerading as Alexander the Great .
3 Against Belhaj a third death penalty would be sought on charges of kidnapping and torture .
4 ‘ Richard ’ , for the female of the species , derives from Richard the Third rhyming with ‘ bird ’ , but was now well past its sell-by date .
5 In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect .
6 Phat struck the motionless corpse of the coolie who had died beside Hoc a third time before he realized that the wretched man had passed forever beyond pain and productive labor .
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