Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] the third " in BNC.

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1 Greg had said before the tournament that the secret of winning might be in not taking worse than bogey and that definitely applied to the third round .
2 Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp .
3 ‘ In applying national law , whether the provisions in question were adopted before or after the directive , the national court called upon to interpret it is required to do so , as far as possible , in the light of the wording and the purpose of the directive in order to achieve the result pursued by the latter and thereby comply with the third paragraph of Article 189 of the Treaty . ’
4 For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World .
5 He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven .
6 Annie rang the top bell and then went to the third floor , Susan 's flat .
7 It was given only six months in the cinema and then screened in the third week of Channel Four transmission in 1982 .
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