Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | during which some part of the story was told in conventional gesture , e.g. the casting of Carabosse 's spell and the Lilac Fairy 's response in the first scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 2 | Kamara started the move for Luton 's winner in the 64th minute when he crossed from the right and a nod-on from Harford saw the ball bounce awkwardly in the area . |
| 3 | Joe Carr had given Jarrow the lead at half time , with Michael Taylor levelling the scores before Norman Platts shot home Silksworth 's winner in the 87th minute . |
| 4 | Paul McGrath headed Villa 's winner in the 46th minute . |
| 5 | The second half was brightened only by Bowman 's winner in the 53rd minute . |
| 6 | Israel 's special festivals , like the weekly sabbath , reflect a pattern of sevens — pointing back to God 's hallowing of the seventh day at the creation . |
| 7 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for Hammersmith and Fulham , was presenting the council 's case on the fifth day of a hearing in which the district auditor is seeking to have the transactions declared ultra vires , or beyond the local authority 's legal powers . |
| 8 | During the Renaissance , and especially in Shakespeare 's case before the First Folio , such textual authority did not exist . |
| 9 | There is in fact such a car outside , but the siren I hear is on my son 's hi-fi in the next room . |
| 10 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
| 11 | Captain Allan Border , as hard and uncompromising as any professional cricketer could be , was so shaken by the news of the loss of his right-hand man that he refused to take the field for the start of the final day 's play of the fourth Test . |
| 12 | Karpov played a relatively recent refinement of white 's play on the seventh move . |
| 13 | TUESDAY 'S play in the first round singles events having been rained off were played yesterday in the 31st Dun Laoghire Bowling tournament in Dublin . |
| 14 | The effect of the Court 's decision on the second appeal was that the trial judge should have allowed the jury to hear the way in which the appellant had answered the questions of the police . |
| 15 | Quicksilver , darting and with wonderful balance and control , Vince was seen at his best at Selhurst Park in Palace 's progress to the 2nd Division Championship in 1978–79 . |
| 16 | However , if Bates can conjure up a repeat of last year 's progress to the fourth round , he is unlikely to go any further with second seed and twice former champion Stefan Edberg blocking his path . |
| 17 | We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 . |
| 18 | Over the years Gouzenko 's story about the second Elli varied considerably . |
| 19 | Cantona 's miss in the second half in particular raised a chuckle , a perfect opportunity which he totally muffed , but they missed a sackload of chances . |
| 20 | Joan Bromberg describes in some detail the US 's preparation for the Second International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy . |
| 21 | The key dates were soon fixed : the Coronation for 12 May and Baldwin 's resignation for the 27th . |
| 22 | However figures out today reveal that the Teesside Development Corporation is building one million square feet of office space 84pc of the county 's provision for the next decade and most of it will be concentrated on its flagship site of Teesdale , Thornaby . |
| 23 | The ministers ' first act was the unanimous endorsement on June 19 of Albania 's admission as the 35th member of CSCE [ see also pp. 37385 ; 37746-47 ; 37838 ] . |
| 24 | But it would be absurd that he should be able to plead the jury 's verdict in the first trial as a bar to the second . |
| 25 | Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 26 | Another American , Malivai Washington , overcame Keil 's resistance in the third round and the stubborn efforts of Fitzgerald in the quarters before bowing out in just 73 minutes in the semi-final to Edberg . |
| 27 | A gleaming chequered-tile floor , satin-sheen walls , a chandelier of dripping crystals and a carved mahogany staircase that was carpeted all the way to Nadirpur 's apartment on the fifth floor . |
| 28 | It is here that Duval-Leroy , supplier of Sainsbury 's Champagne for the last 14 years , has its headquarters . |
| 29 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 30 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |