Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 2 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 3 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 4 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |
| 5 | Following my disclosure in the last issue that escalating costs and reduced financial expectations had forced the United States Tennis Association to contemplate a major re-think of plans for the rebuilding of Flushing Meadow , I hear that the French Federation has also run into problems over the upgrading and expansion of Roland Garros . |
| 6 | Until , encouraged to repeat the achievement , she chooses as subject : My Town in the Third Reich . |
| 7 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |
| 8 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |
| 9 | of manufacturing jobs were lost in Barry in my constituency in the last Conservative recession , manufacturing growth is down 3.7 per cent . |
| 10 | Besides , I set my tale in the last century and not today , because that is a convention which readers like . ’ |
| 11 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 12 | From continually chasing my tail in the first month and being late for everything , and always being in trouble in varying degrees , punctuality became second nature . |
| 13 | I would therefore be grateful if you could publish my address in the next issue of CONTACT . |
| 14 | ‘ Meaning that I 'll need all my strength in the next few days . |
| 15 | A , you might not want to come and join my company in the first place |
| 16 | My involvement in the last meeting of the Accident Investigation and prevention Division in 1979 was also rather significant for similar reasons . |
| 17 | ‘ I told 'im 'e was a no-good whoreson an' 'e should n't 'ave wasted my time in the first place , ’ Billy replied , his blue eyes blazing at the memory of it . |
| 18 | The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 19 | But their presence in the First Division will mean that every Saturday thirty non-English players will be turning out in the top flight taking up places which should be filled by Englishmen . |
| 20 | Medieval Serbia reached its zenith in the fourteenth century during the reign of Dušan ( 1331–55 ) , who was crowned Tsar ( Emperor ) of ‘ the Serbs and Greeks ’ in Skopje in 1346 . |
| 21 | Here her expressive rubato is freer , so that in the first movement the opening theme is more impulsive , and her freedom in the second subject vividly conveys the sort of magic you find in her live performances . |
| 22 | Other measures were announced which it was hoped would enable the Russian government to balance its budget in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 23 | It did not , as has been claimed , need a Louis XI to act as its midwife in the fifteenth century . |
| 24 | It is no part of the function of this chapter to dilate at length upon the rules ( so far as they exist ) or the functions of heraldry since its rise in the second quarter of the twelfth century , but a few general remarks will not be out of place . |
| 25 | Confidence has risen most in Britain , where signs of economic recovery helped net optimism to 42% , more than twice its level in the first quarter . |
| 26 | The definitive chassis , designed by Englishman Tony Southgate , is expected to make its debut in the last two WSC races this year . |
| 27 | Our last question concerned ‘ inaccessible by the young ’ ; And Eliot replied that , according to the OED , ‘ by ’ was a permissible use with ‘ inaccessible ’ as well as ‘ to ’ , and in his opinion its presence in the last line sounded better . |
| 28 | And of course — there was Paula , gripping her harpoon in the third canoe . |
| 29 | The importance of the role she was now , willy-nilly , being forced to play in European affairs , in spite ( or perhaps because ) of her increasing weakness and inefficiency , is shown by the great though indirect and unsought significance of her part in the first partition of Poland ( see pp. 273ff ) . |
| 30 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |