Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the third [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 2 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 3 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 4 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 5 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 6 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 7 | I 'm not gon na have it , you 're gon na say , give it to the third caravan parked on the beach on the left hand side of the loo |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't see anything beyond the third target , ’ he said . |
| 9 | She followed him to the third floor , then along the gallery to a closed door . |
| 10 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 11 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 12 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 13 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 14 | If I do n't pass it at the third time I 'm just gon na give up cos I 'm not failing more |
| 15 | Dr Groome had hooked Susan up to Yggdrasil and floated her in the third tank . |
| 16 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 17 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 18 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 19 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 20 | The technology necessary to produce films , and television and radio programs , is so much more advanced in the industrialised countries than in the LDCs , that it is frequently much simpler and cheaper to import material than to produce it in the Third World . |
| 21 | This brings us to the third question : is regulation worthwhile ? |
| 22 | This brings us to the Third Period , which started with the very first human emotions which heralded the dawn of civilisation . |
| 23 | This brings us to the third stage : the arrival of a new and sometimes troublesome predator in the British countryside . |
| 24 | This brings us to the third phase , in which linguists have become more generally prepared to question the notion of linguistic equality and to accept that language differences might give rise to difficulties which are not due solely to the social and linguistic misconceptions of teachers . |