Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am talking about during the First World War , you see . |
| 2 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 3 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 4 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 6 | for about the fifth time |
| 7 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 8 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 9 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 10 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 11 | Erm he 's in Scotland for about the next month , but I 've asked him to do the recordings in the next week . |
| 12 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 13 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 14 | Well , let's assume you 're saving the questions for after the second paper . |
| 15 | We had our own bedrooms and that was saying quite a bit , because er the , the nurses home had been built er for the er as a sort of war memorial for after the First World War which was one of the most sensible war memorials I think anyone could have er provided . |
| 16 | I am not sure that the right hon. Gentleman has told the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) that , but perhaps the hon. Gentleman is putting down an early marker for after the next election . |
| 17 | ‘ Mebbe that 's what they were after in the first place . |
| 18 | But erm towards about the sixth year , we used to plant about the average of fourteen , thirteen , fourteen , sixteen thousand , aye aye . |
| 19 | McCrum had his eye on a century when he cruelly slipped at the crease and was run out , but his stand of for the second wicket with John Gilliland , who made 32 , put his side firmly in the driving seat . |
| 20 | There was a perfect grace which architects had been working towards through the seventeenth century and which seemed to peak in its purest form at about this time , not without a little Royal influence from Holland ! |
| 21 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 22 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 23 | Yeah well she 's sort of with the third year and will admit she 's so fed up ! |
| 24 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 25 | And erm there has been some research done , they produced a plan of what they actually consisted of in the 17th century . |
| 26 | Its name is derived from a remarkable Chase , the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem , which monuments do now exist as I have there described them . |
| 27 | Charity at 4 per cent interest was nothing to be ashamed of in the nineteenth century and it was much more commonplace for unsatisfactory tenants to be evicted than is the case today . |
| 28 | Travel for pleasure was almost unheard of until the nineteenth century when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote , ‘ For my part , I travel not to go anywhere , but to go . |
| 29 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 30 | Oh Lord , we did so many extravagant things — all sort of at the last minute . |