Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such attempt came to nothing during the Second World War , when a military coup mounted under the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gailani was defeated . |
| 2 | There 's always that barrier to be got over , when you are going to sleep with someone for the first time , and I just thought it would be a good time to get it over with . |
| 3 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 4 | For I am on equal terms with someone for the first time in my life . |
| 5 | So we did the double over someone for the first time since beating Sheff United in the championship winning game . |
| 6 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 7 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 8 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 9 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 10 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 11 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 12 | Someone at the next table echoed that in a foreign accent and Ruth turned to smile at him and raise her glass in a mutual toast . |
| 13 | Advantages : An agency can usually find you someone at the last minute . |
| 14 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 15 | What was mocked was the arrogant superiority of the traditionally educated arts man who knew nothing of the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 16 | She totally childish and not something that somebody in the twentieth century should waste their waste , their time with , and for a brief moment I felt the moral force of Sigmund Freud as through his daughter and of course psychologically this makes sense because I 'm quite sure her superego was modelled on her father 's . |
| 17 | Or somebody in the next place or the next place , we reckon we know where it is |
| 18 | Second team or not , however , there 's nothing like the first century . |
| 19 | You know , if there 's nothing like the last week then Did you have your tea Danny ? |
| 20 | While none of the first set of ideas may be feasible or even relevant , they can be built on , allowing the flow to continue freely no matter how perverse the line of argument . |
| 21 | While none of the first set of ideas may be feasible or even relevant , they can be built on , allowing the flow to continue freely no matter how perverse the line of argument . |
| 22 | There were 87 flotations on the USM in 1988 , 67 in 1989 , 47 in 1990 , ten in 1991 , six in 1992 and none in the first quarter of this year . |
| 23 | They draw a half dozen songs from their eponymous debut LP , plus one off the next album and encore with a cool-funk reading of ‘ Hey Joe ’ . |
| 24 | They draw a half dozen songs from their eponymous debut LP , plus one off the next album and encore with a cool-funk reading of ‘ Hey Joe ’ . |
| 25 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 26 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 27 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 28 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 29 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 30 | Deictic function is pointing out something for the first time , often using demonstratives as in Look at that picture ! ; |