Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.

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1 I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them .
2 Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse .
3 After two decades cotton came to account for a third of the increase in manufactured exports from 1784 – 6 to 1794 – 6 .
4 In 1970 the Heath government sought to fit in the third piece of the Plowden jigsaw — the efficiency function .
5 True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division .
9 Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory .
10 She was to be the Honourable Lady Penelope , a British aristocrat who was seeking the protection of an influential Wehrmacht officer after Britain had fallen to the Third Reich .
11 Tourism authorities responded quickly to reports of the attack by issuing assurances that policing of Dublin streets had increased significantly during the past year and that crime against tourists had dropped by a third .
12 Mr Adams pointed out that the profits of Ford of Britain had risen for the third year running to a record £673m and he calculated a further increase to £710m was likely this year .
13 Those who stared through telescopes or field glasses saw how drastically the two climbers had slowed on the third day .
14 However , Schäuble said that any refugee who had arrived via a third country in which asylum could have been requested would be sent back , and that reciprocal expulsion arrangements with Poland and Czechoslovakia would be renegotiated to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers .
15 He remembered that the rat had disappeared inside the third picture on the right .
16 Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 .
17 In 1985 their consumption was roughly the same as in 1973 , even though real GNP had increased by a third .
18 A survey in 1992 showed that chough numbers had increased by a third since the previous survey 10 years earlier ; 1,247 pairs were counted , compared with 950 pairs in 1982 .
19 With the wars of this century , it had shrunk by a third .
20 Dinah knew he had been kind to Paul , and was bringing out his second book ; and Paul had started on a third .
21 In Scotson v. Pegg ( 1861 ) 30 L.J.Ex. 225 the plaintiffs had contracted with a third party , A , to deliver a cargo of coal to A or to the order of A. A sold the cargo to the defendant and directed the plaintiffs to deliver it to the defendant as per contract .
22 Simon Rankin lost 5–9 4–9 6–9 to Duncan Cameron but David Gotto ended his injury-hit season with a victory over Billy White who retired injured in the third set .
23 He intended to challenge for a third successive 800 metres title but withdraw last night because of a shin injury .
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