Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 2 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 3 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 4 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 5 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |