Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
| 2 | VAUXHALL has won a top towcar award for the third year running , scooping five of the seven trophies in the process . |
| 3 | AC MILAN striker Marco van Basten yesterday won the European Footballer of the Year award for the third time . |
| 4 | Two goals from Wayne Biggins kept Stoke on course for the Third Division title with a 3–0 home win over Darlington . |
| 5 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 6 | When the Foreign Secretary visits the Group of Seven summit in the summer , will he bang some heads together to try to bring forward a new deal for the third world ? |
| 7 | It is in this context that the Conservative party presented its new programme for the third term , following the Queen 's speech ; a set of policies lent a coherence by the inner city problem : |
| 8 | Then it is across the road to the social club for the third pint , before tackling the first of the long uphill stretches to the Lamb at Denholme and the fourth pint . |
| 9 | JULIO ANGUITA , the leader of the Spanish Communist Party , is looking for the thief in Madrid who smashed his windscreen and broke into his car for the third time . |
| 10 | Takenhall proved the annual star turn , winning the Quintin Gilbey Trophy for the third year running . |
| 11 | Simon Wilkinson of the St Melyd club won the Aberconwy trophy for the third time in four years with a 72 hole total of 296 in his last amateur tournament before turning professional . |
| 12 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 13 | He saved that humiliation for the third round , when he knocked Tommy out with an uppercut that the lad from Poplar never saw . |
| 14 | Meaningful aid for the Third World |
| 15 | But it is hoped that in doing so , it will also help him to continue his untiring work for the Third World and enrich the lives of those poor people , particularly in Africa . |
| 16 | CHART newcomer Tasmin Archer fears she may never get her licence after failing her driving test for the third time . |
| 17 | certainly has earned his few quid tonight , about to take this goal kick , we 're inside the final minute of what has been a very good first half for the third division side , one goal each . |
| 18 | The 1936–37 season back home was Darling 's last , but it embraced three fine achievements at the MCG : centuries in the South Australia and Queensland matches , and a recall for the third Test match , in which Australia began their fightback after losses in the first two Tests . |
| 19 | Chairman 's hat-trick : Coun Norman Lantsbery had been elected chairman of Loftus Town Council for the third year in succession . |
| 20 | Not that I care , but it 's handy to be near him , 'cos he 's always got something you can knock off and it 's useful to be able to pinch something of his when the teacher finds you have n't got a pen for the third day running . |
| 21 | Article 35 allows an obligation to be imposed upon a third State if the parties so intend , and the third party accepts it in writing.139 — The juridical basis for the third party 's obligation would appear therefore to be an ancillary ( or collateral ) agreement in writing . |
| 22 | Another Briton , Martin Brundle , driving a Ligier , finished fifth , collecting points for his team for the third time in four races , and Austrian Karl Wendlinger finished sixth in a Sauber . |
| 23 | ‘ Watch me , Graham , ’ I insisted , as I tried the move for the third time . |
| 24 | The annual survey on the Norwegian economy published in early March 1991 by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) reported that inflation , then at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent , was " below the rates prevailing in most trading partner countries " , and that there was a current-account surplus for the third year in succession after several years of difficult adjustment following the mid-1980s fall in oil prices . |
| 25 | the FA Cup may be over for Hereford , but we hope for better things from Swindon and Oxford : Here 's a reminder of the draw for the Third round — they were the first two out of the bag — both at home too . |
| 26 | The kettle-out-of-tin-can-makers of Accra , the barefoot engineers of Bombay , and the hawkers of everything-under-the sun of Jakarta were showing flexibility and perhaps even salvation for the Third World poor . |
| 27 | He stuffs everything back in the rucksack for the third time . |
| 28 | Another Scots exile , David Strang , has broken the Scottish indoor mile record for the third time in the US . |
| 29 | Santa Clara , California-based RasterOps Corp warns that it will record an operating loss and take a $5m to $7m restructuring charge for the third quarter ending March 31 : it says third quarter sales will be about equal to the second quarter 's $25m , and it blames ‘ general market softness and lingering effects of the transition from third party channels to its own sales force . |
| 30 | This was against a background in which the expected OPEC output for the third quarter was 19 million b/d ( against an OPEC global ceiling of 16.6 ) and the stockbuild forecast was over 2 million . |