Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This delightful musical adaptation of ‘ James and the Giant Peach ’ will have feet tapping from the second the curtain rises . |
| 2 | Flaunting to the last the colours of his mistress Diane de Poitiers , while self-avowedly riding in honour of his queen Catherine de Medici , he was pierced in the eye and throat when the lance of his opponent , Jacques count of Montgomery , splintered on impact with his helm ; and on 10 July , in great pain , he died . |
| 3 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 4 | After hours of learning to hook the ball from the tee , when they get to the 18th the ideal shot is a fade . |
| 5 | I always seem to leave till the last the vital , intangible , but certainly not chance factor of the imaginative generosity of the donors . |
| 6 | A later generation was to see Cistercians sent out as missionaries , especially among the heretics of the Languedoc ; and the wandering preacher — a very familiar figure in the twelfth century — became in the thirteenth a Franciscan or a Dominican friar . |
| 7 | The club slipped into the Fourth the season after he left and were almost relegated from the Football League . |
| 8 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 9 | She had to the last a youthful enthusiasm , an erect carriage , and a firm step . |