Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 2 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 3 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
| 4 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
| 5 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 6 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 7 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 8 | You did n't turn them on until the second part . |
| 9 | At the meeting , it was decided that County , the underwriters Dillon Read and Phillips & Drew would take some of the remaining shares and then sell them slowly over the next few weeks , a move which had been discussed with County 's lawyers beforehand . |
| 10 | yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group |
| 11 | Another chapter today would see me nicely into the second half of my story , and this evening I would talk to Crispin and get things sorted out with him . |
| 12 | One , two , three , four five six , seven , eight no one , two three , four there 's nine so we 'll probably have to take some stools in , but I wo n't take them in till the last minute . |
| 13 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 14 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 15 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 16 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 17 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 18 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 19 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 20 | I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first |
| 21 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 22 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 23 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 24 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 25 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 26 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 27 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 28 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 29 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 30 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |