Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I found it very hard at first , lacking confidence about how I looked .
2 Really sad , because you loved him so much at first . ’
3 I do my exam in January and then I drop it because I go on a teaching practice and I pick it up halfway through third year .
4 She tried to fob him off tactfully at first , but then he became brutal .
5 Athelhampton , in 160 acres of deer park , is open to the public most of the year — and Lady du Cann is determined to have it open again by next year .
6 From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands .
7 ‘ Which brings us neatly back to last night . ’
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