Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 4 | For the first mile they were brilliant , very comfortable , but then the Big Bs struck . |
| 5 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 6 | Last August the insurers offered to pay them £500 a day for the first week they were detained , and then £300 a day for each subsequent week . |
| 7 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 8 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 9 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 10 | For the first time they were not photographed together for the cards . |
| 11 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |
| 12 | For the first time they struck her — both letter and box — as symbols of escape . |
| 13 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
| 14 | They were , nevertheless , dramatic or rather traumatic , because for the first time they came into deliberate and militant confrontation with the forces of tradition , conservatism and especially religion . |
| 15 | It 's been a four-hour journey for Fiona and David , now for the first time they meet the competition and hopefully make new friends . |
| 16 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 17 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 18 | For the first time they will know what the fans think . ’ |
| 19 | For the umpteenth time they have arisen because Labour nominees have failed to attend a single meeting in the previous 12 months . |
| 20 | For the last hour they had done justice to Molly 's superb cooking . |
| 21 | For the last week they had the company of Violet Anstruther , which Lily found trying , although it perked Alice up . |
| 22 | For the next issue they are contemplating using the latest catwalk star , the waif-like Kate Moss . |
| 23 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 24 | During the thirteenth century they associated together in communities submitting to an organised communal life of prayer , including the Canonical Hours , and active charity as well as their work , though they were still dependent on the guidance of priests and religious houses . |
| 25 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 26 | During the first days they talked of no one else : this man had loved my father . |
| 27 | ( During the third century they were celebrating Easter and Pentecost , which were inherited and then modified from Judaism and so dependent on a lunar year . |
| 28 | During the eighteenth century they became thinner and thinner , until in the Regency period they were often only half an inch thick . |
| 29 | During the eighteenth century they were further removed , elevated to the attic , sunk in the basement , and , in the Regency , planted out in wings . |
| 30 | But during the next decade they were once again held in Waltham Forest : offences were presented by juries from each ward of the forest , and proved by the Forest officers . |