Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh no , not again , ’ remarks an attractive blonde whose car is stopped for the second ti me in a day . |
| 2 | Robert 's parents , Garry and Thelma , both 26 , paid for the second operation which was carried out in November 1991 and it has proved successful . |
| 3 | Newcastle employed him at Claremont , Surrey ( 1752 ) , and as chancellor of Cambridge University secured his employment to design the university library ( 1754–8 ) ; while for the second duke he worked at Clumber House , Nottinghamshire ( 1768–78 , demolished ) , and designed the bridge in Newark in the same county ( 1775 ) . |
| 4 | But Williams steps aside for the second half which belongs to De Niro . |
| 5 | At half time a mental breakdown resulted in a couple of the boys ( names no mentioned to save their embarrassment ) swapping positions for the second half which was a mistake on par with buying a timeshare in Bosnia . |
| 6 | There were also teams from America , Australia , France , Germany , Switzerland , and Spain , and for the second year there was a team of exceptionally courageous British disabled skiers led by Mr Mike Hammond and Miss Sue Hatch . |
| 7 | For the second word he looked gormless and drew a circle over his head . |
| 8 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |
| 9 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 10 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 11 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 12 | Although the appeals came when Russia was not yet ready to advance , for the second time she went immediately and unhesitatingly to the aid of her allies . |
| 13 | For the second time she had burned her boats . |
| 14 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 15 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 16 | He did so by wandering the streets , and when for the second time he passed the food office where she worked , he knew what he was going to do . |
| 17 | For the second time he ignored an insult . |
| 18 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 19 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 20 | For the second time he made his way out of the pit , and the others followed . |
| 21 | He saw Madra fighting with her reins , hair wild ; then a face out of a nightmare lunged up at him , and for the second time he confronted the tusked maw of a grypesh . |
| 22 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 23 | GORDON Edwards ( Bromborough ) , who never seems to lose his form with the passing of years , won the English Open Seniors Championship for the second time his first success was in 1988 . |
| 24 | In fact , with his book of Spanish Civil War photographs , for the second edition he did not want them retouched ; he wanted the scratches , etc , left in because there was that feeling about it . |
| 25 | In psychological terms , when a speaker of one language learns a second there is a tendency to generalise some of the rules of the first language to the second language ; when these rules conflict with the correct rules for the second language there is interference , sometimes known as L1 interference or mother-tongue interference . |
| 26 | For the second week they 'll be whisked off to lively Barbados , where they will stay at the Discovery Bay Hotel on the fashionable West Coast of the island . |
| 27 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 28 | For the second verse you stop singing ‘ head ’ and hum instead . |
| 29 | Entries are now invited for the 15th Olympiad which will take place in July 1984 . |
| 30 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |