Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arrival we find ourselves ringing the second bell . |
| 2 | George Stephenson himself drove the first passenger train on Tuesday 27 September 1825 . |
| 3 | A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands , who introduced himself as Melquíades , put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia . |
| 4 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 5 | One day America may find itself facing the last generation of its own weapons , which it had sold to its enemy in friendlier times . |
| 6 | In the early stages , however , Commodore believes that it needs to ensure a broad range of titles are available both to support the positioning of CDTV as a family leisure platform and to generate the initial installed base which will itself encourage the third party publishing on which the future of CDTV depends . |
| 7 | NOW THAT the Second World of formerly communist countries is falling over itself to join the First World , the name ‘ Third World ’ suits the rest of the planet less well than ever . |
| 8 | ( They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime , which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish ( choreographed , stylized ) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN ( cf. " The Closet Scene " , Shakespeare Act III , scene iv ) and a very stylized reconstruction of a POLONIUS figure being stabbed behind the arras ( the murdered KING to stand in for POLONIUS ) while the PLAYER himself continues his breathless commentary for the benefit of ROS and GUIL . ) |
| 9 | When Colin Mortlock and myself initiated the first phase of exploration on these cliffs in the 60s , we negotiated an access agreement with the commandant of the Castlemartin camp . |