Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [art] third [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 2 | The following month he reached the third round of the glitzy Paris tournament and he had cracked it . |
| 3 | On the bridge he saw the third officer raise his hand to his cap in a debonair salute , and she waved gaily back . |
| 4 | In the historical tripos he received a third class in both parts i ( 1915 ) and ii ( 1916 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Creeping up to 40 was n't the main reason I wanted a third child , ’ says Saskia , ‘ but I was certainly aware that it would keep me back in the young-mum sphere along with the 25-year-olds . ’ |
| 6 | But the way he landed the third time I knew he would n't get up again . |
| 7 | By the time they reached the third floor they were both out of breath . |
| 8 | But at the same time he composed a Third Concerto which he never played or published . |