Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
| 2 | The differences here between the first two teams are insignificant , but the difference between them and the third team is striking . |
| 3 | They made towards it as the first flare hit the sea , continuing to burn , with clouds of smoke drifting upwards . |
| 4 | Time moves on for all of us and the next day we were homeward bound , hoping , like Peer Gynt , to return some day . |
| 5 | The walls , curved or octagonal , gleamed into brilliance as Jezrael passed , dying behind her until the next person switched them on by body-heat . |
| 6 | ‘ And I have as much human curiosity in me as the next man , ’ owned the earl , and willingly sat down again . |
| 7 | The second has one twist placed in it and the third has two twists in it . |
| 8 | I LIKED the way this film had exactly the same characters in it as the first one . |
| 9 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 10 | ( We must remember that this was closer to them than the Second World War is to us . ) |
| 11 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 12 | Sniffing around the back door it occurred to me that the last time I 'd missed something : there was no cat door . |
| 13 | Right , cos it only dawned on me cos the first of September |
| 14 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 15 | The animal and vegetal poles define the main axis of the embryo and the first two cleavages are parallel to it while the third is always at right angles to it . |
| 16 | There 's a bar on it until the eighteenth of September is n't there ? |
| 17 | As he says : ‘ The first game against Fiji was very important to us and the first try we scored ( by fullback Scott Stewart on a return pass from left wing Steve Gray ) was incredibly important . |
| 18 | We now know this threatens to dramatically alter the world 's weather patterns , raising sea levels and bringing floods , droughts and famines to us and the Third World . |
| 19 | It was the nearest to us and the next one was the Glen Ayloch school . |
| 20 | Philippa , 41 , said : ‘ One minute Rod was joking about it and the next he was acting strangely . ’ |
| 21 | Two of them stood with their rifles levelled at her and the third raised his palm and made a short , brusque , fly-swatting kind of gesture . |
| 22 | But she turned away without looking at him and the next moment Doyle had him by the arm and was hauling him upstairs . |
| 23 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 24 | He takes one look at it and the next thing is he 's shouting . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , what a lovely garden , ’ said Sally-Anne , looking around her as the last bloom was placed on her pile . |