Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | well I 'm a bit puzzled why , why you want to know all this and you think because I have n't given , given a good benefit that 's why a good temporary benefit , that 's why I 'm puzzled , say well let me just take you back to why I 'm h why I 'm here , let me get out of our meeting you 're gon na find this extremely valuable , perhaps for the first half we will spend time looking at your financial put you on the path to achieve financial . |
2 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
3 | If we move to oil well our oil business obviously operates in a cycle different to our publishing businesses and er , at the end of the first half it had record sales and profits fifteen percent ahead in dollar terms ten percent ahead in , in sterling terms which may surprise you slightly , but I think James probably will talk about that later . |
4 | Blowing awfully quickly , that 's the second out of the sixth that you bought yesterday . |
5 | When Rosmer attended the second congress of the Third International he spoke to Trotsky about Bukharin , and reported the following : |
6 | Their first set move broke down through an elementary forward pass , and throughout the first half they were plagued by basic errors . |
7 | With the next trowel-full I 'm going to find a new species and I keep hoping they 'll name it after me . |
8 | Only in the first innings of the third Test in Bombay did England score more than 300 , while in the first two they were forced to follow on . |
9 | In the first half they had dominated the line-out through Bayfield and David Baldwin , they had handled the New Zealand scrum capably and they had put together two backline tries with training ground precision , whereas the struggling New Zealanders could find only two penalty goals from Greg Cooper and never looked like mounting a try-scoring attack . |
10 | Whereas in the first half they virtually tried to play through Thomson on everything . |
11 | Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing . |
12 | In the first half they were on the defensive for all but five minutes . |
13 | Saviour Stuart said : ‘ We deserved a draw in the end , but in the first half we struggled and were n't at the races . |
14 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |
15 | He explained why he sent on Platt : ‘ In the first half we had a great deal of possession but we needed to move the Brazilians about , we needed to hurt them a bit more . |
16 | ‘ In the first half we had three very good chances . |
17 | ‘ In the first half I thought we played some great stuff , but football is all about what happens in front of goal and we were disappointing so far as that was concerned . ’ |
18 | In the last 12 he 's been here at Little Wittenham in Oxfordshire and has raised £150,000 for charity . |
19 | The answer to the first two suggestions is ‘ Yes ’ and to the second two it is ‘ No ’ . |
20 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
21 | You may think you are , but from one house to the next that you deal with it 's always different . |
22 | She said well it was down to the last two she said , I had a choice between a red and green cushion or a fitness test . |
23 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |