Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 2 | This arrangement obliges anyone sitting there to turn his head around sharply towards the left if he wants to see A … — especially anyone in the fourth chair , which is the farthest away . |
| 3 | If you can get it back that 's why I say do the graph if you can get it back to erm but it 's not just something to the fifth , it 's really It 's something to the tenth . |
| 4 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 5 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Deictic function is pointing out something for the first time , often using demonstratives as in Look at that picture ! ; |
| 8 | She opened the door and gazed down a splendid vista of reception rooms that opened out one into the next , which Buzz had learned was typical of grand French houses . |
| 9 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 10 | That 's right right , well what about the next one ? |
| 11 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |