Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jackman had the strokes and strength to respond to the challenge and her counter-offensive in the fourth game swung the balance back . |
| 2 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 3 | Brian Clough 's men earned their second trip to Wembley this season and their sixth in the last four years thanks to Irishman Roy Keane 's stunning extra-time header on an afternoon of high drama at rain-soaked White Hart Lane . |
| 4 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 5 | The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place . |
| 6 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ But they won through in a dour encounter and I wish them well in the next round . |
| 8 | First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance ( to the right of the fixtures ) . |
| 9 | Lindemann , who was third in the 1989 World Cup Final , also has Abound qualified here , and rode this one clear in the first warm-up , and then withdrew him . |
| 10 | ‘ If we do n't see something sensible in the next 24 hours then there is no point in carrying on , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Unless they can say something relevant in the next four days , the many Hong Kong critics who believe the visit is a waste of dollars will be absolutely right . |
| 12 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 13 | However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place . |
| 14 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 15 | Wadkins , third in the Masters last year and in 1990 , had his lowest round yet , beating his 67 in the last year 's first round . |
| 16 | Mitchell claimed his second in the second minute of the second half . |
| 17 | Leicester substitute Ian Ormondroyd almost equalised in the 64th minute , but Nelson made it safe with his second in the 77th minute with a low , curling 20-yard shot . |
| 18 | Mark Pembridge made it 3–0 in the last minute with a stunning 20-yard half-volley into the top of the net . |
| 19 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 20 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 21 | Platt got his fourth in the 83rd minute and three minutes later Ferdinand got his name on the scoresheet . |
| 22 | The England captain got his fourth in the 83rd minute and three minutes later Les Ferdinand made it 6-0 . |
| 23 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 24 | Aldridge went clear from a lobbed pass by Neil McNab and rounded keeper Ludek Miklosko for his first in the 17th minute . |
| 25 | Wednesday kept up the relentless pressure after the break and Chris Bart-Williams made it five in the 61st minute . |
| 26 | Deportivo captain Javier Fran made it five in the 74th minute while Imabol Alguacil scored a 44th-minute consolation goal for the visitors . |
| 27 | And the big Aucklander really came into his own in the second half after the 50th-minute dismissal of Warrington prop Neil Harmon for a high tackle on Oldham hooker Richard Pachnuik . |
| 28 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 29 | The notoriously media-shy financier has come into his own in the last ten years as one of the most successful behind-the-scenes advisors in the British art world . |
| 30 | Merson added his third in the 63rd minute . |