Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the thrill of the moment , and you do n't want to see the person the next day , because it ruins the moment . ’ |
| 2 | The five-year plan would make the plant the first of its size to meet the target of the Netherlands ' 20-year national environment plan . |
| 3 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 4 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 5 | You know how pissed off Kolchinsky was when he got the bill the last time you did that . ’ |
| 6 | In a classic piece of political misjudgment he even told his party conference in a speech that the poll tax would win the Tories the next election . |
| 7 | But he is bold enough to suggest that this Budget , and the three-year-plan laid down within it , will win the Tories the next election . |
| 8 | All the dailies reported the news the next day . |
| 9 | Keep listening until you are sure that you will recognise the sounds the next time you hear them , then withdraw the spade and push it back into the ground some feet away . |
| 10 | I found the card the next morning . |
| 11 | I am sure that he lost many customers because of his habit of popping across the road to his favourite tippling place The William the Fourth . |
| 12 | I was unsure of my welcome when I visited the cottage the next afternoon . |
| 13 | And you 'd got a little bit of plaster you , you could show the court the next morning , he was going to prison . |
| 14 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 15 | So I told the press the next morning who were mega grumpy at all of this and I do n't blame them , so when the ceremony started Pat took the stills photographer round to the front and the television guys as the Princess began to inspect er the crew pulled all their gear through the Band of the Royal Marines over their toe caps under the tubas and pressed their cameras under the nose of the Princess Royal which would n't have happened had the Lieutenant Commander been prepared to listen to us and of course you could see him getting angrier and angrier |
| 16 | If a previously approved module is part of a package which is undergoing approval then provided that the module is specified as ‘ Latest ’ , LIFESPAN will automatically give the module the next highest approved issue number and add the approval caveat ( if one has been supplied ) . |
| 17 | And another thing you have n't paid me for shoeing the horse the last time . ’ |
| 18 | I have not seen the film The Last Temptation of Christ ( Reviews 189 ) and my comments therefore rely on your excellent review article . |
| 19 | Okay so we , we , we 've the May the fourth directive , er we , we , we 've now got the May the fourth directive operational . |
| 20 | And between 1981–83 , when he was number one in the world rankings , he played in every United States match , helping them to win the trophy the first two years and even competing in their historic relegation match against Ireland in Dublin after they had lost to Argentina in the first round in 1983 . |
| 21 | Then stone me , we opened the NME the next week and it seems we 'd ‘ interviewed ’ the Happy Mondays . |
| 22 | You reply at once if you get the meaning the first time ( ‘ Did you get wet ? |
| 23 | When Alexander addressed the nobles the next day they were practically eating out of his hand . |
| 24 | Despite the appalling conditions and human suffering , despite warnings by meteorologists that the torrential downpour on 8 October would continue , Haig resolved to pursue the attack the next day on a 13-km/8-ml front , stretching from Veldhoek in the north to near Broodseinde in the south . |
| 25 | Well there 's no logic to that there because the the lack of cover and er whatever applies the minute the last person leaves , and that erm it lies that the the concern is that if somebody who was in on the building , in the building on their own has an accident , |
| 26 | I was due to run the marathon the next day . |
| 27 | Rang the landlord the next morning , Saturday morning , and , apparently he has rang last night , and your wife Debbie took my drink away and away , I said that 's fair enough , so he said . |
| 28 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 29 | Even at this awkward moment , I doubt that the performance of the economy alone , or even chiefly , will lose the Conservatives the next election . |
| 30 | He seemed to settle finally for us , us being the police , or at least the fact-seekers and , clearing his throat , he told me that his men with grappling irons and magnets had missed finding the floorboards the first time , probably because the floorboards were n't magnetic . |