Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff hoped that a French micro , the Thompson 07 , could be modified for use in their first major pilot project near Marseilles . |
| 2 | The problem was that there was no compulsory retiring age in the nineteenth century , and Robert Jameson worked on as Professor at Edinburgh for half a century , dying in office in his eightieth year in 1854 . |
| 3 | However , this will not be necessary if the bidder already has in place from its last AGM an authority to issue sufficient shares for the rights issue ( without , if necessary , complying with the strict requirements of s89 ) . |
| 4 | At their first meeting his innuendo on such words as ‘ fight ’ , ‘ tame ’ , ‘ deeds ’ , ‘ activity ’ ( III.ii.39–59 ) seems to be contagious , for in an encounter unique in Shakespeare two lovers who have previously spoken verse actually descend to prose for their first conversation , to exchange bawdy double meanings on words like ‘ monster ’ , ‘ monstrous ’ , ‘ will ’ , ‘ execution ’ , ‘ act ’ , and ‘ performance ’ ( 62–99 ) . |
| 5 | Intimate details about the relationship are supplemented by information from his first wife 's 63-year-old mother , who is also named and photographed . |
| 6 | Six papers had been accepted for publication during his first Oxford year , but he was as little pleased with them as with The Woodland Life : ‘ I am impatient to get to Lincoln College ’ he wrote to Hooton . |
| 7 | TROY was sentenced to death on his 16th birthday . |
| 8 | PONY-TAILED South African No.3 Lisa Low coasted to victory in her first appearance at the North Wales Open Tennis Championships at Prestatyn with a crushing performance against 16-years-old Mold schoolgirl Claire Bennett in the final . |
| 9 | And when at rest , does man 's best friend lie in contemplation of his next act , or of the possible menus for his next meal ? |
| 10 | I hoped that Archie would recover in time for his first night on duty . |
| 11 | Any one of us might be struck by lightning , but the probability is pretty low in any one minute ( although the Guinness Book of Records has a charming picture of a Virginian man , nicknamed the human lightning conductor , recovering in hospital from his seventh lightning strike , with an expression of apprehensive bewilderment on his face ) . |
| 12 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 13 | He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley , in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming , as it did , soon after his father 's death in March 1743 , was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him . |
| 14 | The 70-minute video , which retails at £10.99 , is packed with such classic tracks as Layla , Running On Faith plus his last hit , Tears In Heaven . |
| 15 | It was a place that Jed had found by chance during his first few weeks in Adam 's Creek . |
| 16 | As we have not received a report as yet , this will be given to council at their next meeting . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 18 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 19 | The Boulting obsession with the silver screen began on a wet day in 1921 when the eight year old twins went with nanny for their first trip to the cinema |
| 20 | One can imagine my indignation when I finally received a copy of a letter that had been signed by Mr. Ian Fleming , one of the Minister 's officials , clearly stating in annex A : ’ The scheme was introduced in April 1990 ( but took into account in its first year any systems obtained by GPs since April 1989 ) . |
| 21 | Police said six people already charged with Suzanne 's kidnap and attempted murder would be charged with murder at their next court appearance . |
| 22 | INJURY-HIT Crystal Palace go in search of their first Premier League win today at Everton with boss Steve Coppell fearing the Peter Beardsley factor . |
| 23 | Palace go in search of their fifth consecutive win on Boxing Day in the Selhurst Park clash against tenants Wimbledon , with McGoldrick unconvinced about his role on the wing . |
| 24 | The patterns of interaction explored and illustrated in detail in our eleventh report and briefly summarized here raise important issues for teachers , heads and advisory staff : |
| 25 | The Hammers manager stormed : ‘ We went to sleep after our second goal . |
| 26 | Su Ragazzi kept on course for their first men 's league and cup by qualifying for their cup final at Meadowbank on 28 March . |
| 27 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 28 | The proportion of men aged 15–19 who were found to be infected with HIV-1 at their first test increased from an average of 2.4% up to 1990 to 4.7% in the first nine months of 1991 . |
| 29 | He will be aware that there is still a problem in my constituency and the south-west with the burden of the business rate , but is not the last thing that small businesses want the layers of bureaucracy that would result from 10 new regional assemblies , new sex and race discrimination legislation and the hundreds of new quangos that Labour would put into practice in its first year of office ? |
| 30 | She had her own flat , at Coleherne Court off the Old Brompton Road — bought with money that had been put into trust until her eighteenth birthday — which she shared with girlfriends . |