Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 2 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 3 | I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office . |
| 4 | We look forward to hearing more from you on the fourteenth of June erm but next week my subject will be based on another lecture topic , quite a different one . |
| 5 | I look forward to seeing you on the 14th of June . |
| 6 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 7 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 8 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 9 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 10 | ‘ There ai n't no list , lady , ’ he said as he pushed past her with the first of the consignment . |
| 11 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 12 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 13 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |
| 14 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 15 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 16 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 17 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 18 | This causes problems er , if I may say so , er but erm , it , the paragraph does n't make any reference to the date , it 's paragraph five point three , now I want to see debate in the point in erm , implementing it before the first of April . |
| 19 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 20 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 22 | Okay , if we do it to the fourteenth of the second ninety four , er and then that 'd come up , I can tell you what we cos Peter 's just is halfway through it with Well I say halfway through it . |
| 23 | Well , 25 of us went to see it on the 13th of February , and it 's a good show . |
| 24 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 25 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 26 | I mean would n't you be absolutely pig sick of them by the first of December never mind christmas . |
| 27 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 28 | Erm the talks erm Gillian Thornton is gon na speak to us on the 23rd of February just to remind you and I 've actually prepared some notes on play writing which we can fit in some time during this sort of session . |
| 29 | And you 'll be pleased to know that Frank Dobson has agreed to meet us on the fourteenth of June and we will make sure , to the best of our effort , that that policy will be endorsed . |
| 30 | This brings us to the second of my three questions . |