Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 2 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 3 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 4 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 5 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 6 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 7 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 8 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 9 | And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years . |
| 10 | England 's first choice spinners , Emburey and Tufnell , did not take a wicket between them until the third day of the third Test . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first . |
| 12 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 13 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 14 | Particular highlights for me over the last year have included : |
| 15 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 16 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 17 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 18 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 19 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 20 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 21 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 22 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 23 | A Range Rover pulling a horsebox sped towards them round the next bend , straddling the middle of the lane and causing Mossop to swerve through a muddy ditch at the roadside . |
| 24 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 25 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 26 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 27 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 28 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 29 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 30 | ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal . |