Example sentences of "[prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wait for the third , he wrote , for the return of otherness , oddity , spikiness . |
| 2 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 3 | ‘ Watch me , Graham , ’ I insisted , as I tried the move for the third time . |
| 4 | ‘ He expressed a rather sensible idea , ’ said Stavrogin , ad yawned for the third time . |
| 5 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 6 | Howell , Labour MP for Small Heath , claimed that violence at the weekend was caused by groups of Birmingham City followers — totalling at least 300 - arriving in Blackpool without tickets for the Third Division match . |
| 7 | Bull 's absence would be a big disappointment for Wolves as his fellow striker , Andy Mutch , is almost certain to be sidelined for the third game in a row with a groin injury . |
| 8 | IBM , which had revenues of $60bn and profits of $6bn last year , shook Wall Street last week by warning that earnings forecasts for the third quarter and for the whole year would fall significantly below expectations . |
| 9 | JULIO ANGUITA , the leader of the Spanish Communist Party , is looking for the thief in Madrid who smashed his windscreen and broke into his car for the third time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There were some highlights from Bristol , some back-row charges , a 50-yard passing movement which saw Doug Woodman scoring the first of his two tries , and Paul Collings making a solo break for the third . |
| 12 | For the third year running The Independent has been named overall sport pages winner in the national daily newspapers category of the Linotype-Printing World newspaper design awards . |
| 13 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Northampton Town yesterday spent £70,000 — a record cash buy for the Third Division club — to buy the winger Bobby Barnes from Bournemouth . |
| 15 | Awarded Wine magazine 's Wine Merchant of the Year title for the third year running , Oddbins is generally acknowledged to have bucked the trend . |
| 16 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 17 | Of Pasolini 's ‘ growing passion for the Third World ’ Enzo Siciliano says : ‘ He had the idea that ‘ Negritude … will be the way' ’ . |
| 18 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 19 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 20 | Wexford closed the books and emptied his tankard for the third time . |
| 21 | On one occasion when he had failed to produce an essay for the third week running , Betjeman wandered sheepishly into Lewis 's room and threw himself on his knees by the hearth . |
| 22 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 23 | Tokyo : Stocks closed lower for the third consecutive trading day . |
| 24 | Besides , in the week of Back To The Future II ( Empire PG ) , with its trailer for the third episode shamelessly tacked on to the end , and dozens of trade names shamelessly glaring through its mise-en-scene , Field Of Dreams seems positively purist in its appeal . |
| 25 | For the third day running , 200,000 or more blocked the centre of Prague , cheering Mr Dubcek 's call on the hardline leadership to quit . |
| 26 | For the third day running , 200,000 or more blocked the centre of Prague , cheering Mr Dubcek 's call on the hardline leadership to quit . |
| 27 | Even as Mrs Thatcher stood triumphant for the third time on the stairs at Central Office the applauding apparatchiks were already honing the knives for the Saatchi team which was blamed for various mid-campaign woes . |
| 28 | Braniff Airlines went bust for the third time . |
| 29 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 30 | To keep market share , IBM has just cut prices on its PCs for the third time this year . |