Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four , who re-release their single Thank You For The Music next week , split up 10 years ago . |
| 2 | Then he said , ‘ It was you in the passage last night , was n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | They think they have seen her somewhere before — was she on the television last night ? |
| 4 | ‘ Was that you on the phone last night ? ’ |
| 5 | Now that list is provided with you on the day first day of your assignment . |
| 6 | Brigadier Gatehouse is coming to start you on the shooting next week and Miss Bedwelty is coming to discuss the riding arrangements today . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 8 | Was you at the Park last night , madam ? |
| 9 | Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division . |
| 10 | She 's the girl who let me into the house last might … |
| 11 | He punched me in the head first , from the side . ’ |
| 12 | My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House . |
| 13 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 14 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 15 | Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold . |
| 16 | if you 're interested , then we can do that in the bath , can you put them in the box first |
| 17 | If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first , she 's immediately led astray by extras like ‘ free use of private beach ’ , ‘ heated swimming pool ’ or ‘ wine-tasting ’ . |
| 18 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 19 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 20 | Instead of lifting her into the saddle first , as he had always done before , he mounted Chalon , turned the horse in a tight circle to present its left flank to Isabel , and extended an imperative hand . |
| 21 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 22 | Courteously seating her inside the car first , he walked round to the driver 's side , and when he had settled himself behind the wheel asked unexpectedly , ‘ Have you visited one of our pubs yet ? ’ |
| 23 | The equally indomitable Dunwoody had his second fall of the day on Calabrese and completed a painful hat-trick when King of The Lot unseated him in the Tote 7th Handicap Chase , won by Howe Street . |
| 24 | The adjutant directed him to the hospital next door , giving him written instructions on how to find the ward . |
| 25 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 26 | Facing him at the office next day was like facing a firing squad . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend makes a good point and I think that it would be legitimate to raise it during the debate next week on the motion to approve the autumn statement , when I hope it will be pointed out that that party political broadcast was a gross travesty of the facts of British manufacturing industry . |
| 28 | But these considerations did not stop Ortho-Cilag , the manufacturer of another anti-arthritic drug , Zomax , from taking it off the market last week after only five reported deaths in US and three in the UK . |
| 29 | He was not good enough to make it into the rugby first XV but was among the top academically , taking lots of prizes , and becoming school captain . |
| 30 | He then sucks it into the hollow first joint of a special limb , the pedipalp , rather in the same way as one fills a fountain pen . |