Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [num ord] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 2 | It was equally important to ensure that all would-be courtiers studied music , which in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries included ali the arts and muses . |
| 3 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 4 | To the shrine came a trickle of pilgrims , which by the eleventh and twelfth centuries was growing into a flood . |
| 5 | … and follow in the footsteps of the thousands of men and women who in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries left Ulster to seek a new life in America . |
| 6 | The historians Ephorus and Timaeus , who in the fourth and third centuries B.C. were the first to collect extensive information about Gaul and Spain , do not seem ever to have visited these countries . |
| 7 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 8 | This was originally a Romanesque building but was gradually turned into a Gothic one in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 9 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 10 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 11 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 12 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |
| 13 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 14 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 15 | Athena appears in the first and last and in one other at each end ; Hermes with her in the first and without her in the Cerberus , where his presence is necessary as the hero 's guide to the Underworld . |
| 16 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 17 | And to insert it between the third and fourth word can change the meaning rather dramatically . |
| 18 | The cobbler then slits the three-dimensional pattern down the heel , removes it from the last and cuts away excess material . |
| 19 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 20 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 21 | I knew the first time was seldom ideal and I wanted to get past it to the second and third times , and all the times after that , when our love could go forward and mature and develop . |
| 22 | Well could we have it on the sixth and change the committee day ? . |
| 23 | There will be some conflict over who owns or earns what between the 26th and 28th but , as June gets under way , your chances of clinching a deal or celebrating a major coup are extremely high . |
| 24 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 25 | This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ? |
| 26 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |