Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not certain why I should remember this unless it was perhaps my first , unacknowledged , awareness that he was himself and not another ; and that that self was , in a dignified , quiet way , reaching out to me . |
| 2 | This afternoon I made what is perhaps my last visit to ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 3 | As a producer ‘ Space Oddity ’ was very important to me as it was only my second or third record and I was looking forward to seeing David play it live . |
| 4 | ‘ Our visit to Debbie this year was only my second time in Italy . ’ |
| 5 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 6 | This is only my second season of fishing and I 'm learning all the time . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's only my second day , ’ said Juliet , ‘ and I must dash . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm late for work and it 's only my second night . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ This was my second visit to Lourdes but only my first with the Helen Leech pilgrimage . |
| 10 | I still ca n't buy cos it 's only my first time bloody round ! |
| 11 | I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament . |
| 12 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 13 | The senator had beaten down my last defences , and now offered me a compromise that might make my surrender to his wishes more acceptable . |
| 14 | And I could hardly force down my fourth slice of toast and marmalade . |
| 15 | I do n't know I do n't know how long income support 's going to be , I do n't know how long my next pay packet 's gon na be or what have you . |
| 16 | So my first act on Indian soil was to telex a friend at Weatherbys , the British racing bureaucrats , to get them to explain the facts of life to the Bombay Turf Club . |
| 17 | So my first tentative Effort to tell the medical powers of the further help I hoped to seek , had met with little enthusiasm . |
| 18 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 19 | Perhaps her last remark was a bit sententious ? |
| 20 | It was her third visit there , perhaps her fourth . |
| 21 | Having spent 13 years in this place , I still find it truly remarkable that , with regard to such important issues — Croatia is receiving perhaps its first real airing in the House since the tragedy began to unfold — we are having this debate at 3.35 am . |
| 22 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 23 | The hiatus over the Maastricht Treaty caused by the Danish veto provides the leaders of Europe with perhaps their last chance to reject once and for all the notion of political integration . |
| 24 | North play four full internationals — Orrell 's Nigel Heslop , Bryan Barley of Wakefield , Kevin Simms of Liverpool St Helens and Steve Bainbridge from Newcastle Gosforth — while the Springboks field very much their second string but include lock Drikus Hattingh , certain to face England on Saturday . |
| 25 | Apparently their last previous sighting was at his college the night before . |
| 26 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 27 | The Meta Group is putting together its Second Annual Application Development Strategies Conference , set for September 14–16 at The Buttes in Phoenix , Arizona . |
| 28 | Well , it was only her second day . |
| 29 | Moon birdied four of the par fives , three-putted the seventh and completed her round with only her second single putt of the day to save par at the 18th . |
| 30 | Andrea Wallace , one of Britain 's top cross-country athletes and a mother of two , running in only her second marathon , believes that if she is still there at 20 miles , she has a chance of gaining a medal . |