Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the third [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 2 | In 1970 the Heath government sought to fit in the third piece of the Plowden jigsaw — the efficiency function . |
| 3 | True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person . |
| 4 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 5 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |