Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when I came to the third I did not like it . |
| 2 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 3 | I turned to the third passenger . |
| 4 | The house move necessitated my moving school , to Brackenbury in Hammersmith where I began in the third year . |
| 5 | I went to the third National Conference of Self-Help Groups . |
| 6 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 7 | Margolis , in a similar study , found that there was an initial build-up of citations which occurred until the third year after publication . |
| 8 | At 31 , he already suffers from arthritis in the mis-shapen left arm that is the legacy of his first National ride , which ended at the third fence . |
| 9 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 10 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 11 | But Manetho , who lived in the third century BC , wrote in Greek and his work must be regarded as Hellenistic in character rather than Egyptian . |
| 12 | Then the grocer who lived in the third house shot himself . ’ |
| 13 | She stopped on the third step , and looked back at Pete . |
| 14 | You 'll go wild , like you did in the third year with Sharon Latimer . |
| 15 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 16 | Lowe was twelve when she married for the third time — to a psychologist — and he arrived , all corn-fed and terminally uncool , in Malibu . |
| 17 | Richard said : ‘ The fierce weather we encountered on the third leg has tested us to our very limits . |
| 18 | When we came to the third hole I thought we were going to need some of that cushion . |
| 19 | There was a Mr and Mrs , Stephen was and there was a Mr and Mrs , the caretakers , and they lived in the third floor of a flat there . |
| 20 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 21 | Of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists , however , I confess to having listed only Iain Banks , Kazuo Ishiguro ( both of whom appeared in the third edition ) and Jeanette Winterson , although I think there is scope too for Will Self , Nicholas Shakespeare and maybe Ben Okri . |
| 22 | He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg . |
| 23 | It came to the third night . |
| 24 | It was a favourite of his , because he identified with the third line of its first verse — He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword . |
| 25 | Indeed he was appointed London correspondent for EVO when it was launched , a fact that initially escaped Miles , since he was unaware it existed until the third issue . |
| 26 | Throughout January he worked upon the third act of the play and . |
| 27 | He went into the third hangar . |
| 28 | Exasperated by what he saw as Theo 's heartless neglect of him , he unleashed a volley of angry questions to a brother he relegated to the third person : ‘ Why does n't he write ? |
| 29 | What happened to the third to make it a minor ? |