Example sentences of "the [noun sg] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bundestag is due to vote on June 20th , the Bundesrat the next day , although the upper house can not stop the lower one from leaving if it wants to . |
| 2 | Having defined the size of the board the next stage is to consider the circuit and the components themselves , before getting down to the job of designing the copper track pattern itself . |
| 3 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 4 | Well I remember being aboard the Brandon , because Uncle John came and stayed with us at the cliff and er , er father was at sea somewhere but he came and stayed with us and then he now went down into er to see his captain cos they were sailing on on the tide the next day . |
| 5 | Later in the afternoon the first peals of thunder rolled across the sky . |
| 6 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 7 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 8 | Trish yawned as she came padding into the kitchen the next morning . |
| 9 | Jenny tells me the rest of the story the next day . |
| 10 | I was unsure of my welcome when I visited the cottage the next afternoon . |
| 11 | The truth is they 're rushing through the debate because they know that in the budget the next month , the chancellor will announce further defence cuts . |
| 12 | Graham Taylor selected Clough as it became clear that Nottingham Forest have finally signed a transfer form which makes the striker the first summer addition to Souness 's squad . |
| 13 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 14 | In the realism department this month there is Avigdor Arikha , who also lives in Paris but who believes in finishing whatever painting he has started before the sun goes down because the light the next day is likely to be entirely different . |
| 15 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 16 | I found the card the next morning . |
| 17 | I was due to run the marathon the next day . |
| 18 | However , after she 'd had time to calm down , Susan returned to the salon the next day to try to get her money back . |
| 19 | Later in the programme the fiftieth birthday of Britain 's first jet fighter . |
| 20 | Karen Bage and Eileen Boynes have been named sales negotiators of the month for Shepherd Homes in the North-East the second time in a year the team at the Beckfields Walk development at Ingleby Barwick , near Thornaby , has won the award . |
| 21 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 22 | A policeman brought this letter to the lawyer the next morning . |
| 23 | ‘ I have to go out today , ’ Fernando told her when she came down for breakfast on the terrace the next morning . |
| 24 | And between 1981–83 , when he was number one in the world rankings , he played in every United States match , helping them to win the trophy the first two years and even competing in their historic relegation match against Ireland in Dublin after they had lost to Argentina in the first round in 1983 . |
| 25 | And another thing you have n't paid me for shoeing the horse the last time . ’ |
| 26 | Then Shelley felt a shiver of anticipation , as she remembered the effect the first sight of the handsome Miguelito had on her . |
| 27 | climbed through the window the next door neighbour phoned up , got a spare key . |
| 28 | You can not ask me to help you at one moment , and leave me out in the cold the next . ’ |
| 29 | On the other side of the highway the second of the big sixteen wheelers was parked , engine running and one of Rocky 's trucker buddies behind the wheel . |
| 30 | For the queen the last few months had been perhaps harder then for the Shah himself . |