Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 2 | Of all the hundreds of trade pattern books issued by manufacturers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears that not more than ten survive in public collections , and only one pre-Victorian priced catalogue relating to coffins and lining materials . |
| 3 | On the hundredth blow he motioned his subordinates to cease and haul the moaning coolies upright . |
| 4 | That 's the hundredth stroke she 's taken ! |
| 5 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 6 | Then in the seventieth minute he left Martin Smythe for dead wide out on the right before finishing the ball across Richardson into the far corner of United 's goal . |
| 7 | On the fourteenth day we moved to a different section of the training building . |
| 8 | The patient was said to be unable to speak after this operation but by the sixteenth day he was able to use words like " mother " , " father " and " nurse " . |
| 9 | And then on the sixteenth month you 've got ta pay it back . |
| 10 | From his window on the fourteenth floor he had a view downtown , but the scene was far from welcoming . |
| 11 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 12 | After her fourteenth birthday she herself began to teach and never afterwards spent her days out of a classroom . |
| 13 | Here the bridge between us is the Society of St Peter Apostle , whose hundredth birthday we celebrate this year . |
| 14 | Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations . |
| 15 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 16 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 17 | Sir Karl Popper , a kind and gentle thinker and whose 80th birthday we recently celebrated , has expressed this notion time and time again , and other scientists heartily endorse it . |
| 18 | I had not seen him since 1982 , but when we met again in his home near Salzburg in March 1988 to record radio and television interviews on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was quite unchanged , as courteous and welcoming as ever and perfectly settled within himself . |
| 19 | As early as the mid-19th century it was recognised that the common practice of boiling greens with bicarbonate of soda was wrong : ‘ Never , under any circumstances , unless you wish entirely to destroy all flavour and reduce your peas to pulp , boil them with soda . |
| 20 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
| 21 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 22 | In the sixteenth century they sought posts in estate administration , which brought a small fee to their holders but were probably more important as signs of royal favour and sources of patronage . |
| 23 | When the Spanish pioneers penetrated the interior of Colombia during the early sixteenth century they were impressed by what they took to be the passion of the Indians for the well-being of their dead . |
| 24 | There are few indications in the documents as to when and why each of the settlements was affected , but at least in the sixteenth century we know that there was a shortage of land to provide food to feed everyone . |
| 25 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 26 | In the sixteenth century it was found more convenient and safer for these goods to be transported overland to the ports of northern Italy , where they were picked up by Ragusan merchants . |
| 27 | In the meantime the fortunes of the undertaking fluctuated but by the late sixteenth century it was in financial difficulties . |
| 28 | Since the early sixteenth century it has been known that North American Indians and Inuits made maps . |
| 29 | By the early sixteenth century it is clear that oligarchies were often well established : other towns where this was the case included such major centres as Bristol , Exeter and Lynn ( 82 , pp.101–2 ) . |
| 30 | Ever since Machiavelli wrote The Prince and The Discourses in the sixteenth century he has been associated with the ugly side of political activity . |