Example sentences of "[noun] at the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She remembered that Bridget had put a couple of bottles of white in the freezer compartment at the last minute . |
| 32 | Can you see how West could have defended the hand better other than leading a Club at the first trick ? |
| 33 | Despite the passage of the new restrictive press laws , observers noted a significantly positive attitude towards democratization in a speech delivered by Council of State Chairman Vo Chi Cong at the sixth session of the eighth National Assembly held on Dec. 18-28 , 1989 [ see also p. 37123 ] . |
| 34 | If the local organization after an election remained active , on a permanent basis of annual subscription , with a permanent organizing secretary who would attend to the registration work and become the agent at the next election , a candidate could , and probably would , be selected on his merits , and the constituency would be independent of men whose only merit was their wealth . |
| 35 | Hopefully all will be well for the teachers responsible for tea at the next meeting . |
| 36 | It is the turn of the teachers in the Richmond and Hounslow area to do tea at the next meeting . |
| 37 | Central London teachers are asked to provide tea at the next training day ( 17th October 1981 ) . |
| 38 | ‘ I now declare you to be members of the Elect to be initiated into the Sacred Ministries at the next Easter Vigil ’ |
| 39 | Make friends with your accounts department at the first opportunity . |
| 40 | The problematic four Duetti ( two prelude and fugue pairs ) were added as an afterthought at the last moment . |
| 41 | The central authorities , late as usual , grasped this detail of local life by 1924 , when Krupskaia at the Thirteenth Party Congress noted that due to the tightening of the economic ‘ scissors ’ , the higher bread prices could no longer be afforded by starving village-teachers . |
| 42 | These include calling in the fire brigade at the first sign of what they quaintly call ‘ smouldering in senile machinery ’ and ejecting all the customers forthwith , and not opening stations if the required number of staff ( two on the smaller stations ) have failed to turn up . |
| 43 | ‘ The trophy was in the shape of a wooded scroll with a quartz clock and a brass plate inscribed with the words , ‘ Presented to Joan Rawson by the Stockport & District Concert Secretaries at the 29th Command Show 1992 . ’ |
| 44 | Radical Palestinian groups claimed that the US decision demonstrated that the path of moderation adopted by the PLO at the 19th session of the Palestine National Council ( the Palestinian " parliament in exile " ) in November 1988 [ see p. 36438 ] was redundant . |
| 45 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 46 | From a kneeling position , he turned and doused the oil lamp hoping to reduce the chance of any embarrassment changing Molly 's mind at the last minute . |
| 47 | She was nervous that he might change his mind at the last minute , but he did not do so . |
| 48 | All the techniques in taekwondo are flexible and allow the practitioner to change his mind at the last minute as to which block or punch will provide him with the best defence or counter-attack . |
| 49 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 50 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 51 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 52 | It 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind at the last minute . |
| 53 | Once a boy was almost carted away but the Headmaster changed his mind at the last moment . |
| 54 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 55 | I could hear the talk at the next table , the staccato clatter of Mexican , and behind me the piercing voice of an American woman . |
| 56 | The talk at the next meeting at Liphook Village Hall on April 9th is ‘ Wild Flowers Abroad ’ by Mr. H. Ward . |
| 57 | I distinctly remember , in a television interview at the last party conference , Cecil Parkinson declaring that before privatisation , the heads of the nationalised industries ran their organisations for their own benefit , not the public 's . |
| 58 | He defeated fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie at the first hole of a sudden-death decider after the pair had tied on three-over-par 287 . |
| 59 | Yeah , erm , right , yeah , that 's all the other items , erm what 's been er been going through my head recently is , is er the , looking at the pattern of the meetings and the way the meetings are arranged and , and how , erm , at the last meeting we had a speaker er and that I think , we all found that quite interesting and the one , one from Central America that things and I feel we ought to have that much more frequently than we do have er , a , either a speaker or a focus of some sort of meetings erm , so I think that 's something I 'd like to raise and get the A G M at the next meeting I think similar thing we ought to consider there . |
| 60 | The body 's symmetrical horns join the neck at the seventeenth fret , leaving the remaining four on the 21-fret neck positioned over the body . |