Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Fifties ended he was on the point of multiplying millions by opening the first Playboy Club , in Chicago , where the girls , not the customers , were dressed as rabbits . |
| 2 | In fact he could have been me , except that he had had the initiative to ask the landladies if he could stay cheaper by foregoing the second ‘ B ’ — the breakfast . |
| 3 | Oddly , the think-tank that seems closest to catching the next intellectual wave is the one whose collapse seemed most logical a year ago . |
| 4 | And you feel anxious about getting the first lot of seeds sown out of doors . |
| 5 | I listened and learned , watched and learned , and soon became adept at striking the first blow : if there was any teasing and tormenting going on ( and there was plenty ) I made sure that I was an active and not a passive participant . |