Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise they 're going to have another sleepless night , and we need them fresh for the next stage . ’ |
| 2 | Let her go to her grave imagining me defiant to the last . |
| 3 | But Jackman had the strokes and strength to respond to the challenge and her counter-offensive in the fourth game swung the balance back . |
| 4 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 5 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 6 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I thought we were lovers ! she wanted to scream , but she swallowed her hurt for the thousandth time and forced a smile . |
| 9 | To discourage petty claims , most insurers make you liable for the first £25 . |
| 10 | ‘ But they won through in a dour encounter and I wish them well in the next round . |
| 11 | I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one . |
| 12 | Quote of the Buxton Conference came from American Paul Piana , whose audio-visual about the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap proved to be a masterpiece of comedy . |
| 13 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ If we do n't see something sensible in the next 24 hours then there is no point in carrying on , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The other was the knowledge , inexplicable and certain , like all knowledge in dreams , that he would find something deadly inside the last box . |
| 17 | Over the next few years leading up to the 1995 World Cup there 'll be plenty of time to slot in replacements as they are needed — particularly to the front-five where Jason Leonard will probably be the only one available for the next tournament . |
| 18 | Dorothy 's Journals provide a record of the tour , which involved the use of a vehicle described as ‘ an Irish jaunting car ’ ; they made a pilgrimage to the grave of Burns and visited Sir Walter Scott , whose Lay of the Last Minstrel was to introduce the new metre of Christabel to a public who had never heard of the source . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | USL hopes to have something ready by the first quarter of next year . |
| 21 | That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want . |
| 22 | After 300 years of Portuguese rule , Brazil declared herself independent on the 7th September 1822 , with her own monarch , the Portuguese Prince Regent , Dom Pedroh I. In 1899 , a year after the abolition of slavery in Brazil , a further step was taken to form a federal republic , the United States of Brazil . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides . |
| 26 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
| 27 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 28 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
| 29 | It caused us a lot of extra work , major changes and more travel to get it right for the second larger meeting . |
| 30 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |