Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 2 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 3 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 4 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 5 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At all centres we complete your logbooks at the end of the holiday , and most beginners are happily sailing on their own by the second week . |
| 8 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 9 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 10 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 11 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 12 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 13 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 14 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
| 15 | Lovely , very , very , good indeed , that , that is there now , sounds very good , just , erm , a few little things , would you try to give me more on the fifth finger , the E , the E flat , there , think of a crescendo , to that , want that come out , then , then it will , erm , I 'm almost frightened to put a crescendo in because it was n't the , a big one . |
| 16 | Dickie bored him all through the first course with stories of the Navy in the First World War , and all through the second course with stories of the Navy in the Second World War , and then he got up and said , ‘ I 've got to go now to a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff , but the Prime Minister will keep you amused . ' ’ |
| 17 | And then he blew it all at the last minute with that interference . |
| 18 | Er the perceiving people do n't , it does n't worry them very much , they 'll do it all at the last minute and get it sorted out somehow . |
| 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 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 22 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The majority of collectors of autograph and manuscript material will not concern themselves with these early periods or with anything much before the sixteenth century . |
| 27 | We 're committed to Harlow er , as an area we put considerable resources of our own into the first phase of er , the Three Hills and you 'll hear tonight we 'll be putting in a conditional er , two hundred thousand odd into into this phase from our own reserves . |
| 28 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |
| 29 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |