Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 3 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 4 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 5 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 6 | Every time I 've asked him to do anything in the last three days , I ca n't , working out the quiz . |
| 7 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 8 | schools and they 'll They probably wo n't manage anything in the next week because the schools are going on holiday at |
| 9 | We do n't get any paid anything in the second year ? |