Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 3 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 5 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 6 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 7 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 8 | And there you have , not a very good picture , but you can see this was th with the goods shed as per the last ordnance survey map . |
| 9 | Not all the interests of our citizens have been looked after over the last twelve years . |
| 10 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | Start thinking today what you would really like to work towards over the next few months and even years . |
| 12 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 13 | We 've heard a lot this morning er about the merits of client server and where it 's come from in the last five years . |
| 14 | These have just come in in the last year . |
| 15 | As the baby grows up , 24-hour rhythms begin to appear from about the second month of life onwards . |
| 16 | The orang-utan lineage appears to have originated from within the first trend , with further modifications of skull and postcrania , but with little change in environments . |
| 17 | This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 19 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 20 | This picture is added to in the next chapter where we examine the informal relations that exist within organisations , and in Chapter 6 where we examine power . |
| 21 | The notion of power referred to here is that which Lukes referred to as the second dimension of power ( see Ch. 2 ) . |
| 22 | And we now know that these ghastly effects are the results of what we referred to in the last lecture endotoxins . |
| 23 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 24 | Where the pupils referred to in the next section are concerned , their teachers seem to play a larger role in the arbitration of proper action . |
| 25 | you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place . |
| 26 | It was agreed that the procedures for data entry would be looked at over the next few months , and further discussions would be held in due course . |
| 27 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 28 | Localized variations in voting patterns may reflect changing forms of political alignment and voting behaviour ( see Johnston , Pattie and Allsopp ( 1988 ) for a review ) , and electoral politics will be looked at in the next chapter , but here I shall consider the notion of political culture more widely . |
| 29 | This evidence , which will be looked at in the next section , is an indication that a direct link between allergy and mental problems is not impossible . |
| 30 | A meeting of university presidents was taking place in Beijing , prompted by student unrest in June ( which will be looked at in the next chapter ) , and they were considering the effects that ‘ Heshang ’ might have . |