Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd felt awful about the abortion last time , and he wanted to keep this one and marry me and start again . ’ |
| 2 | It looks like Labour and the Liberal Democrats are set to join forces , adding to the agony for Alan Winmill , who left Labour for the Tories last year . |
| 3 | Mr Vargas , whose group is called the Liberty Movement , needs to win more than half of the votes next 8 April to secure the presidency . |
| 4 | he played well in some of the games last year and for the bullshit of ‘ not in leeds ’ future plans ’ — i ca n't believe Wilko have said this after the good-talk he gave Frank last year . |
| 5 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 6 | Well I wo n't give an opinion whether I agree with the scheme or not , because I would like to see some of the drawings first before I gave a , you know , of an opinion of it , like you know everybody else around this table . |
| 7 | Life in Russia is hard ( and since we deliberately chose to stay in a cheap non-western hotel we experienced some of the hardships first hand ) but I shall never forget the generosity and overwhelming hospitality shown to us by the people of Bastaisk church . |
| 8 | Keeping some of the Rangers first team squad away from a disco would be like keeping moths from a lightbulb . |
| 9 | He also saw booming business in multimedia , and forecast that Apple will sell over 1m CD-ROM drives this year and more than 2m next — it sold only 50,000 of the things last year . |
| 10 | ‘ Ludens said Marcus once felt fond of the dog next door , ’ said Gildas . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean there 'll be someone different in the bed next to me tonight ? ’ ‘ 'Fraid not . |
| 12 | Australia 's Danielle Drady , briefly ranked No 2 in the world last year , lost to Holland 's Hugoline van Hoorn in her first match since rupturing an Achilles tendon last autumn . |
| 13 | It was interesting in the pub last night . |
| 14 | I mean it was very interesting in the Crown last night because apparently they , they normally have some rhythm and blues and soul and things like that on a Thursday . |
| 15 | If the fashion pundits are to be believed , this Wild West look will be riding high on the beach next summer . |
| 16 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders returned to the last eight of the competition last night in unusual and , Everton would claim , unjust circumstances . |
| 17 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders returned to the last eight of the competition last night in unusual and , Everton would claim , unjust circumstances . |
| 18 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 19 | Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy . |
| 20 | A combination is perhaps not quite so simple as the beginners first believe . |
| 21 | Important projects ( such as the £1.2m second phase of research on bovine spongiform encephalopathy ) could be delayed , he warned . |
| 22 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 23 | Christie 's agent was unaware of the race last night but the sprinter announced on Friday he was shelving plans for a £250,000 race against Carl Lewis and — as Super Sport forecast last month — the clash will place next year . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll take six of the men first as handlers , then the cargo , he called . |
| 25 | Social Democrats , frustrated by long years out of power , voted by more than three-to-two against the treaty last June . |
| 26 | Park ponds project VOLUNTEERS can help make two ponds more accessible to the public next month . |
| 27 | Their research , detailed in Sick to Death of Homelessness , shows the death rate among the homeless is three times higher than the rest of the population , with more than 600 dying on the streets last year . |
| 28 | A person who harassed a neighbour with racist abuse would nevertheless have no defence that he was not acting in public if his words were , ( as he knew ) audible to the person next door . |
| 29 | He 'd sounded nervous on the phone last night . |
| 30 | But a night-marish six at the 164-yard 17th undid all the good work and it took a birdie at the last to rescue a par round . |