Example sentences of "[verb] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Tell him the sun-god promised that you would be the wisest of men , " whispered the third goblin . |
| 2 | The chief innovation is allowing the third umpire to make the first move in decision-making , which the TCCB admits could lead to : ‘ Suspension of a decision already made ’ . |
| 3 | As they passed the third cave , the golden bee flew out of the woman 's sleeve , and they saw the lightning flash and heard the thunder crack behind them . |
| 4 | The Maronite Christian parties boycotted the third round , as they had the previous two rounds . |
| 5 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
| 6 | For years , Karl Dersch has flown the Third Reich emblem at his Munich home . |
| 7 | In putting this case we should first recollect the third pillar in Dicey 's concept of the rule of law . |
| 8 | Finally , using the third kind of pager , known as an alphanumeric pager , a message can be spelled out in words on the screen . |
| 9 | Equally predictably , given the third party payment problem , the cost of those publicly funded has come close to running out of control . |
| 10 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 11 | Clasper and the conspirators timed the third offence to coincide with the visit to the UK of the President and Chief Executive Officer of United Motors , Nate Cocello , as this would provide maximum publicity to the planned strike . |
| 12 | I would like to see the Third and Fourth Divisions and GM Vauxhall clubs combining . |
| 13 | You were looking at the beetle world in such a way as to be able to see the third dimension . |
| 14 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 15 | Bill read the Third time , and passed . |
| 16 | Second , if this is true , can capitalism develop the Third World ? |
| 17 | Dependency theorists , therefore , were still trying to answer the question that had troubled Marxists since the turn of the century , namely ‘ can capitalism develop the Third World ? ’ |
| 18 | On January 20th Harry Moniba became the third man to lay claim to the presidency . |
| 19 | In the second Test at Port-of-Spain , he duly became the third ‘ W ’ , Weekes and Walcott having already made their debuts , and scored 97 and 28 not out . |
| 20 | Mr Heath moved into Number Ten , Sir Keith Joseph succeeded Dick Crossman at the Department of Health and Social Security ( as Crossman had succeeded Joseph at Housing and Local Government in 1964 ) , and Mrs Thatcher became the third woman since 1944 to assume responsibility for education . |
| 21 | Thomas Jefferson became the third president in 1801 despite published accusations of his seducing two married women and keeping a slave mistress . |
| 22 | Livingston became the third British athlete after pole vaulter Jeff Gutteridge and shot-putter Neal Brunning to be banned for failing a drugs test . |
| 23 | Of its predecessor , which became the third highest money-making film , actress Mariel Hemingway said : ‘ My lot have seen the movie 20 times at least and they still get a laugh out of it . |
| 24 | It is almost certain to earn more than its original — which became the third biggest grossing movie ever — and looks set to edge out top grossing film Terminator II for opening figures . |
| 25 | STEVE BRUCE became the third player to leave Manchester United 's tour of Norway when he flew home yesterday because of an accident to his seven-year-old son Alex . |
| 26 | IN 1891 , St Cuthbert 's became the third new church to be opened in Bradford in the space of four years . |
| 27 | Having scored 530 ( 75.71 ) against England last winter , Boon became the third Australian , after Don Bradman ( three times ) and Greg Chappell to exceed 500 runs in successive series in Australia . |
| 28 | John Vento became the third white to be sentenced in connection with the Bensonhurst attack , having been convicted of unlawful imprisonment and menacing behaviour , on July 3 , and was on Aug. 14 imprisoned for between 2@2/3 and 8 years . |
| 29 | Mike Moore became Prime Minister of New Zealand on Sept. 4 , after being elected leader of the ruling Labour Party ; he became the third person to hold the post in the space of 13 months . |
| 30 | Lithuania thus became the third Soviet republic to conclude an economic agreement with Bulgaria , following Russia and Byelarus [ see p. 38350 ] . |