Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 2 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 3 | As Penelope mounted further to the third floor where she and the other lodger had their rooms , she was relieved to hear the limpid notes of a recorder playing ‘ Brother James 's Air ’ . |
| 4 | She was not squeamish about using her considerable social influence in support of her son Winston ; she pressed his writing on publishers , sought for favourable reviewers , and appealed directly to the third Marquess of Salisbury , then prime minister , to permit him to join the expedition to the Sudan under Sir H. Herbert Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , q.v . ) . |
| 5 | But perceptions that the Alliance was running second in the polls collapsed in the second week ; and voters ' assessment of Alliance chances of winning a majority or even holding the balance of power dropped sharply in the third week ; while television 's sharp switch to focus on the two-Party Labour versus Conservative battle occurred in the fourth week . |
| 6 | Roberto played beautifully in the third round and we progressed to two strokes ahead of the field after he shot a 67 . |
| 7 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 8 | But in a frantic third period , Kevin Conway fired home in the third minute to equalise Wojciech Tkacz 's first period opener . |
| 9 | Two of three jaundiced patients underwent endoscopic sphincterotomy to remove duct stones after successful percutaneous cholecystolithotomy and the stone passed spontaneously in the third . |
| 10 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 11 | if money for investment is made payable to the firm , it should be returned to the client to be made payable to the correct third party or , if this is not possible due to extreme circumstances , the cheque should be endorsed and forwarded immediately to the third party |
| 12 | He worked consistently on the third act , and by the end of the year he had finished a draft of the entire play . |
| 13 | GRAHAM GOOCH 's Indian tour of misery reached a new low yesterday as England 's batting slumped again in the third and final Test in Bombay . |
| 14 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |
| 15 | In her second play , untitled and completed only to the third act , Leapor finds scope within the historical events surrounding the short reign of the Saxon King Edwy or Eadwig ( 955–959 ) again to study the problems of marriage and sexual violence . |
| 16 | The miss rule that has dogged the game all season struck again in the third . |
| 17 | With a lead of 61 gained early on the third day , England were in a strong position to win . |