Example sentences of "[num ord] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 By far the rarest type of post-medieval coffin is the gable-lidded tapered shape ; this is frustrating , especially as they are so well known in contemporary art from the fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries .
2 So he says , ‘ Okay , ’ takes a 1-iron and leaves it short of the bunker , and then knocks his second on to the green .
3 This year , the second on from the Festival is still proving to be a bumper one for individual membership ; we are now well in to the 900 's and it would give great satisfaction and joy to all if the magic figures ‘ 1000 ’ could appear in the membership book lovingly kept by the Treasurer and Secretary .
4 We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point .
5 On Thursdays I go to music lesson and erm , we have this singing contest erm , we come second out of the first years , and we sung Mole in a Hole .
6 He followed the match on the 6th up to the green players , caddies , referee , steward and camp followers .
7 Could we not have all guessed that Lt Col Custer ( he gave himself the rank of general ) came 34th out of the class of 34 at West Point .
8 We finished 47th out of the 63 . ’
9 So many thousands of differences have been hybridized and bred for that it has become well nigh impossible to find a variation that has not been tried before , but which is new , and can reap a rich reward for the nursery that is first on to the market with it .
10 This is a man whose idea of love-making is to mash his partner against a wall , rip off her knickers , and then throw her head first down on the sofa .
11 ‘ When one 's first married , ’ he says , ‘ when one 's first down from the university , one keeps striking attitudes .
12 Then an idea glimmered in one face — the idea of touching the Miracle-Worker — and instantly it was in every mind at once , with young and old alike fighting each other to be first up on the pageant .
13 So they 're the first up with the Christmas tree decorations each year .
14 The fact is Koi have a pecking order — not based on aggression , so much as a will to be first up to the pellets .
15 His own mother was always first up in the mornings , to see husband and son off to work or college , and continued the habit almost till the day she died .
16 Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats .
17 THE winner of Computer Guardian 's Compaq Competition is Allan Kelly of Slough , Bucks , whose card was first out of the hat .
18 First out of the stalls was the American challenger One For All , but then Ossian took up his pacemaking role and led along the far side from Ramsin and the Aga Khan 's Sharapour .
19 First out of the hat comes Plans and Elevations : Ben Kelly Design and Jasper Morrison ; plans , projects and drawings , 1981–89 .
20 Nutty hesitated , looked back , and saw Jazz emerging bottom first out of the hole in the hedge .
21 First out of the hat was John Riley of Fribourg , Switzerland , who receives a signed copy of Melvyn 's meisterwork , A Time To Dance .
22 Receivers a bank appointed under the terms of a debenture did themselves a disservice recently when they failed to pay themselves first out of the proceeds of the receivership , as they were entitled to do under the terms of their appointment .
23 When Brian braked I was first out of the Land Rover .
24 Sperm from later matings overlie these , and are first out of the tubule when there is an egg to be fertilised : last in — first out .
25 First out of the stalls should be NotePhone , which will combine Siemens and Rolm telephony and Newton technology for access to phone and fax features .
26 First out of the gate will be IPX Sparc 3 — a Sun Sparcstation 2-compatible machine with Mbus and TI 's superscalar chip — expected to retail between £8,000 and £9,000 .
27 Covia has existing agreements with IBM , Tandem Computers Inc , DEC , NCR Corp and Unisys Corp for CI — those ports are currently in beta test , with NCR 's likely to be first out of the gate .
28 First out of the gate is Pegasus which is offering its Unifacts accounting software on a four-user SCO Unix-based Intel platform — with Lotus 1–2-3 and Wordperfect — for £10,000 .
29 Meanwhile , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that it will be first out of the gate with a commercial version of WizDom by mid-1993 .
30 The Motorola 88110 RISC is not actually out yet , but the company 's Computer Group has had enough of third parties announcing new machines using its parent 's chips long before it gets a crack at them , and the company is first out of the gate with a single-board computer using the forthcoming 50MHz 88110 .
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