Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The , one about the security guard , Bill he , he 's now made arrangements for the attendance a first aid er , meetings . |
| 2 | As Julie saw him reach for the doorbell a third time she opened the door and eased it back to the extent of the chain . |
| 3 | He reached for the lamp a second time , feeling the bed shake as the harridan prepared to make her escape . |
| 4 | For the queen the last few months had been perhaps harder then for the Shah himself . |
| 5 | When Edouard left for the airport the next morning , Isobel was with him . |
| 6 | The pilot again tipped the canard on the edge of a stall and we dived for the field a second time . |
| 7 | For the time the first pioneers arrived to the present day , the white man has felt compelled to tame the desert , to reduce its primeval vastness to human dimensions . |
| 8 | During the raid the first of the twelve Boeing B–17s from the mainland arrived . |
| 9 | In kinship relations such as the avunculate the first order elements are the family relationship terms of father , uncle , mother , son , nephew . |
| 10 | Police were called but when he was interviewed about the attack the next day he could not remember anything . |
| 11 | climbed through the window the next door neighbour phoned up , got a spare key . |
| 12 | It was a bad time for Charlie 's Indians : the White House cavalry was charging through the reservation every second day . |
| 13 | Immediately after this big moment the earth is convulsed with horror we have Eve 's first speech , presumably after the fall the first speech in a state of sin , and this is it ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees in Paradise , of operation blest to sapinense hitherto obscured in famed and thy fair fruit let hang as to not end created , but henceforth my early care not without song each morning and dew/due pray shall tend thee and the fertile burden ease of thy full branches offered free to all . |
| 14 | When she came round after the anaesthetic the first thing she says to the nurse is , Well , was I or was n't I ? |
| 15 | Shortly after the war the first commercial computers were developed . |
| 16 | After a minute the first French skirmishers ran into sight . |
| 17 | After a week the first cracks were appearing within the group and between the group and its organisers . |
| 18 | It was not unusual for a recording to be made in Leningrad one week and to be in the machine of a listener in the far east of the country the next week . |
| 19 | On the other side of the highway the second of the big sixteen wheelers was parked , engine running and one of Rocky 's trucker buddies behind the wheel . |
| 20 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 21 | The result of all this was that , although at the end of the century a third of the population still lived below the poverty line and the diet of the poorest included items such as white bread , condensed milk , and vegetable oil margarine , the earnings of a Lancashire cotton operative in 1913 permitted him ‘ a breakfast of coffee or tea , bread , bacon and eggs — when eggs are cheap — a dinner of potatoes and beef , an evening meal of tea , bread and butter , cheap vegetables or fish , and a slight supper at moderate price ’ . |
| 22 | Nor did they find one on Belov 's body , when they pulled it out of the river the next morning . |
| 23 | Certainly , in its execution of the attack the Fifth Army had displayed a cumbersomeness and excess of caution that would never have been countenanced by most of Hitler 's captains . |
| 24 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 25 | Having defined the size of the board the next stage is to consider the circuit and the components themselves , before getting down to the job of designing the copper track pattern itself . |
| 26 | Jenny tells me the rest of the story the next day . |
| 27 | With the fall of the village the first phase of the battle ended , and an even grimmer one began . |
| 28 | Due to circumstances beyond the control of the plaintiff the last delivery was made in early September rather than late August . |
| 29 | After the turn of the leaf the next day when the the the new quarter began , every shop was queued from eight 'o clock in the morning . |
| 30 | Review Of The Week The last sweep of the Guttersnipe |