Example sentences of "in [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
2 | As he later recorded in his ‘ Lines on an Autumnal Evening ’ , these were the settings in which for the first time ‘ young Poesy/Stared wildly-eager in her noontide dream ’ . |
3 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
4 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
5 | in contrast to the middle classes , in which by the second half of the century contraceptives were available and effectively used , abortion was becoming a ‘ back-up ’ method of birth control ; in the case of working-class women , without safe contraceptives , it was a basic means of family planning . |
6 | Mrs Cathy McHale , a 15-handicap member of Childwall , had her first hole in one at the 13th ( 136 yards ) in a holiday greensome . |
7 | Mrs Cathy McHale , a 15-handicap member of Childwall , had her first hole in one at the 13th ( 136 yards ) in a holiday greensome . |
8 | The first prize was taken by , and scored a hole in one at the seventh . |
9 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
10 | We travelled thousands of miles in it over the next two years . |
11 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
12 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
13 | There was only one stroke in it after the first round ( Thomson 68 ; Thomas 69 ) , so it was n't cut-and-dried . |
14 | Pensionable pay is basic salary/wages and pensionable emoluments in whichever of the last 3 years of reckonable service gives the highest figure . |