Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 2 | The first vat burst open , the water in the second boiled , and only in the third was his temper restored to normality . |
| 3 | These recent proposals reflect Moscow 's current priority to retrench economically and militarily in the Third World . |
| 4 | And now to the third of our special reports to find out what businesses from our region are learning from the Florida experience . |
| 5 | The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease . |
| 6 | For two days after their conversation Ruth did not see the woman , and then on the third day a man leaned over from the upper deck and called out to her . |
| 7 | Two nights a week she worked here and then on the third night she washed her hair and all her clothes to get rid of the smell of fried fish and went dancing . |
| 8 | And then for the third leg of our erm Radio Oxford yankee , we go over in the tenth race , the nine forty eight . |
| 9 | And then in the third leg of the yankee , the eighth race , this is the nine sixteen , third quarter final erm and here I 'm going to have to go for Ned Supreme in trap one , trained by Kenny Linzell at Romford in Essex . |
| 10 | With Ruggles and Parkinson hitting high and hard in the third , Partners held a 14–11 advantage but again failed to capitalise , although a couple of refereeing decisions left them puzzled . |
| 11 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 12 | They were standing side by side and ahead of the third figure , who was positioned directly behind them . |