Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adv] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 There is nearly unanimous agreement among historians about the significance of the ‘ impossible situation ’ in which the Plantagenet king-dukes of Aquitaine found themselves in the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries .
2 She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time .
3 I remember everything to the very last moment .
4 She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried .
5 She knew that now , had known it from the very first moment she had met him , however more comfortable it would have been to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain .
6 Although he had won the Derby , plenty of people were still convinced that he did not truly stay a mile and a half and that Piggott 's sensitive handling of him at Epsom , producing him at the very last moment , had masked this lack of stamina .
7 Shall I tell you about the very first little baby ?
8 These blessed theatrical people leave everything to the very last minute .
9 But she was n't away till the third or the fourth , if you could get it within the very first few days
10 Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter …
11 Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter …
12 I 'm just going to pay a call anyway before I leave it to the very last .
13 I 've loved you from the very first moment I saw you .
14 And indeed she left it to the very last possible moment ; she almost missed her chance .
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