Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She regarded herself as a Catalan first and last . |
| 2 | This little harbour near St Austell is named after Charles Rashleigh , who built it in the late eighteenth century to a design by John Smeaton . |
| 3 | Britain won the last encounter between the two sides at Wembley when a 52,000 crowd lifted them to a famous first Test win in 1990 . |
| 4 | Its death had been postponed , which had enabled the Hunt Ball Committee to hire it for the triumphant last appearance of a house that had outlived its glamour , and all kind importances . |
| 5 | Nothing , however , quite prepared us for the momentous last months of this decade . |
| 6 | At the very least , Hong Kong are hoping that he will steer them to a vital second place in September 's Asian Rugby Football Tournament in South Korea . |
| 7 | John Barker based his on a discarded first joint of a fishing rod , stripping off the cork handle and ferrules for the main tube , and trying both wooden dowels and glass fibre for the sail spars . |
| 8 | He risked everything at the short 15th after his five-iron tee shot finished among the rocks . |
| 9 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 10 | He eventually established himself as a regular first team player for the Parkhead club before he was transferred to Manchester United in 1973 . |
| 11 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 12 | With extra time looking certain to end in a second 1–1 stalemate and dog-tired players steeling themselves for the dreaded first Cup final penalty shoot-out , the 30-year-old soared to head a Paul Merson corner into and out of Chris Woods ' hands . |
| 13 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |
| 14 | Bicester 's opponents are Bradford Salem , the side who beat them in the final last year . |
| 15 | Browning , who revived it in the late nineteenth century , thought it showed Smart rising from sanity to transfiguration , or , as Rossetti put it , from Earth to Heaven . |