Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 2 | Let her go to her grave imagining me defiant to the last . |
| 3 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 4 | Er the perceiving people do n't , it does n't worry them very much , they 'll do it all at the last minute and get it sorted out somehow . |
| 5 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 6 | To discourage petty claims , most insurers make you liable for the first £25 . |
| 7 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 8 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 9 | Dickie bored him all through the first course with stories of the Navy in the First World War , and all through the second course with stories of the Navy in the Second World War , and then he got up and said , ‘ I 've got to go now to a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff , but the Prime Minister will keep you amused . ' ’ |
| 10 | A couple of hours of hard graft should see it ready for the next stage of its facelift , and might also tire her out enough to get some sleep . |
| 11 | ‘ They say things they think will keep us happy until the next tragedy , ’ he told a news conference . |
| 12 | Lovely , very , very , good indeed , that , that is there now , sounds very good , just , erm , a few little things , would you try to give me more on the fifth finger , the E , the E flat , there , think of a crescendo , to that , want that come out , then , then it will , erm , I 'm almost frightened to put a crescendo in because it was n't the , a big one . |
| 13 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
| 14 | Right it 's going to do it ninth of the fourth ninety three . |
| 15 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 16 | We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 . |
| 17 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 18 | I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one . |
| 19 | And King is seeking quality crosses as Tranmere bid for a Prenton victory that would take them third in the first division . |
| 20 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 21 | She must take it easy for the next few days . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll have it ready for the next bout . |
| 23 | However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place . |
| 24 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 25 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 26 | And then he blew it all at the last minute with that interference . |
| 27 | They kept it intact to the last but both of them knew , without any discussion , that to keep themselves afloat they 'd jump on any passing raft . |
| 28 | The Scheme is funded for eighteen months only and this means that the numbers will start to drop in October 1993 and that is the only good thing about this Scheme , because it 'll make it easier for the next Labour Government to abolish it . |
| 29 | Wednesday kept up the relentless pressure after the break and Chris Bart-Williams made it five in the 61st minute . |
| 30 | Deportivo captain Javier Fran made it five in the 74th minute while Imabol Alguacil scored a 44th-minute consolation goal for the visitors . |