Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND will create a little bit of history on Saturday when they play their first indoor international on grass grown thousands of miles away . |
| 2 | The family have been out in Brazil since February when they commenced their second period of missionary activity . |
| 3 | My homes are a far cry from the attic flat in Bloomsbury where I had my first set in 1958 . |
| 4 | Liz will provide the voice-over for baby Little Maggie when she says her first word — ‘ Daddy ! ’ |
| 5 | PLUMBER Peter Rowe , 53 , has bought the Wheal Basset Inn at Carnkie , Cornwall — the pub where he had his first drink 38 years ago . |
| 6 | In March 1945 , a few weeks before the German surrender , Eliot was expressing his pessimism about the future ; a few days later he wrote his last commentary for the Christian News Letter and used the pseudonym of " Metoikos " or " resident alien " . |
| 7 | Two weeks later I won my first national title at the Indoor Championships , taking the 200 metres . |
| 8 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 9 | Three years later he received his first major commission , to decorate Bodley 's new church of St John , Tue Brook , Liverpool . |
| 10 | Three years later he had his first Formula One drive in a March 711 at the Austrian Grand Prix , just six years after watching his first Grand Prix . |
| 11 | In confidence now it enters its second half-millennium . |
| 12 | Er just before the war when I saw her last . |
| 13 | Twenty-five minutes later they received their first back-bearing from Darwin , indicating that they were one degree north of track . |
| 14 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |
| 15 | A week later she made her first score from a dealer in Times Square . |
| 16 | ‘ Central Office did not know the name of the child until Wednesday morning when we read it first in the Independent and subsequently in the Daily Express . ’ |
| 17 | at the moment now next month when you get your next bill that ten pound thirty will be worth about twenty ninety one . |
| 18 | And three days before these lines were written , English Heritage set the seal on Eliot 's Kensington associations by putting a plaque on the block where he spent his last and happiest years . |
| 19 | The stark fact is that the Quakers have failed to achieve back-to-back victories since an encouraging start to the season when they won their first two games . |
| 20 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 21 | ‘ A FEW hours ago I discharged my last duty as the heir to the throne and now that I will be succeeded by my son , Prince William , my first words must be to declare my allegiance to him . |
| 22 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 23 | But he stayed on the move and following a scholarship from the Paderewski Foundation travelled to India , where he got food poisoning , Peru , where he taught art for two years , and Morocco where he met his first wife . |
| 24 | Vons , in turn , became her way out of Midway City , Orange County , the Californian backwater where she spent her first 20 years . |
| 25 | But a year later he had his second stroke . |
| 26 | Vaux Durham Senior League FELLING , on a day when the weather was the real winner , created history when they recorded their first league victory . |
| 27 | Some time later I found myself next to him at a dining-club . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a good batting track yet we achieved our fourth score of less than one hundred this year . |
| 29 | At the time when you started your first gallery was it unusual for a woman to be in charge ? |
| 30 | I think she really took a fancy to you — talked about you all the time when I saw her last summer . |