Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 2 | They could be paraphrased by : ( 63 – ) If anyone had dared tell me the like two months ago , I would have scouted him as mad or drunk . |
| 3 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 4 | He 's had over seven thousand from me the past three months . |
| 5 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 6 | Like most of Karajan 's judgements , it is rational and soundly based , though it will always disappoint English music-lovers for whom the early 1950s Philharmonia was a high-water mark in the country 's orchestral affairs , matched only by such other brief periods of glory as those enjoyed by Beecham 's LPO and Boult 's BBC SO in the 1930s and the LSO in the Monteux , Kertész , and early Previn years . |
| 7 | And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had . |
| 8 | Lillywhite was fourth and Smith ninth but in the same time as the second placed man , ensuring them the top two places overall . |
| 9 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 10 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 11 | Oh no I the twenty six strike er is just a You know a very very big and er you know er railway man , leader of the strike , buying all the shares because he was But that 's one of the things , because it was a headline in the |
| 12 | I invite him to read the Prime Minister 's response to the right hon. Member for Chesterfield , which was far and away the most interesting part of the debate — Amended text or not , it reveals the muddle to which the other 11 nations of Europe do not subscribe . |
| 13 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
| 14 | She had moved up the shop , between the assortment of hats perched on stands and to the counter behind which the other two sisters were standing , the tall spare-looking Miss Rene and the almost diminutive Miss Florence . |
| 15 | While some might see in all this nothing more than economic fulfilment , the ultimate political goal , with which the other four signatories were more in sympathy , was already implicit in the Rome Treaty 's preamble with its desire ‘ to establish the foundations of an even closer union among the European peoples ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Firstly , on the basis of the passage from Lord Bridge 's speech in Cocks v. Thanet District Council , with which the other four members of the Judicial Committee agreed , it is clearly the case that , having made their decision on 24 June 1983 [ viz that she was homeless , in priority need , and not intentionally homeless ] the council came under a statutory duty to secure that accommodation became available . |
| 17 | That abolishes Wages Councils but denies the lowest paid British workers a minimum rate of pay which the other eleven member states provide . |
| 18 | Subsequent writers , however , have copied Patrick Forbes 's work without checking for themselves , and the misleading myth has evolved in which the first thousand litres of the cuvée is believed to be officially designated the premiere cuvée . |
| 19 | CANADA 'S Daniel Wesley won the BSAD-ADT London Wheelchair marathon at his third attempt , following a sprint finish on Westminster Bridge in which the first four competitors all achieved times inside Frenchman Farid Amarouch 's 1991 course record . |
| 20 | A rare approach to library use from the reader 's point of view is Frank Hatt 's The reading process , of which the first two chapters are essential reading . |
| 21 | All of these activities meant that he could not get on with his new play , of which the first two scenes were already drafted and which he had planned , tentatively , to finish in time for the Edinburgh Festival of 1952 . |
| 22 | But the vision was a long way off from Britain , for which the first two years of the Fifties were a continuation of wartime in civilian clothes . |
| 23 | Item 5 is a weekly benefit , of which the first 14 days of any period of incapacity is excluded and benefit is payable for 104 weeks from the 15th day of incapacity . |
| 24 | It is envisaged that the national squad will spend two weeks in Johannesburg next March and then head straight to Kenya for three weeks of Cup cricket after which the top three teams will qualify for the 1995 World Cup to be staged jointly by India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | the likes of which the twenty six strike was , you see , there there was no er there was no holds barred . |
| 26 | looks at its long history , in which the last five years have been arguably the most dramatic , part of a transformation which is by no means over . |
| 27 | Who the other two directors were and whether they were justifiably hiding behind pseudonyms is a matter for conjecture . |
| 28 | I 'll gi you the five hundred pound . |
| 29 | The other thing that we want from the client advertising client to make it a full deal so that we can pay you the thirty thirty percent commission is copy . |
| 30 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |