Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 2 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 3 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 4 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 5 | he has n't missed one since the second world war |
| 6 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 7 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 8 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 9 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 10 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 11 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 12 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 13 | The same kind of accident used to be common with gliders , and the pilots could never remember anything after the first bounce . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't see anything beyond the third target , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 16 | Afterwards McEnroe finally agreed to hold a press conference — thereby avoiding a $10,000 fine following his refusal to attend one after the first round . |
| 17 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 18 | Of missions sent by Roman bishops beyond the imperial frontiers we hear nothing until the sixth century . |
| 19 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 20 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 21 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 22 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 23 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 24 | Team-teaching alongside a knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleague can effectively take one to the next stage . |
| 25 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 26 | The other one , could I just correct something on the last line of er , comment at the bottom of the , bottom of page two . |
| 27 | Oh and I 'll have one for the last card . |
| 28 | We did n't have one on the last play . |
| 29 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 30 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |