Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you for the compliment you paid the last edition of Rural Wales . |
| 2 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 3 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 4 | For Bede he became the fifth overlord of all the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber ( HE II , 5 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 6 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 7 | With Walter Crane [ q.v. ] and W. A. S. Benson he organized the first arts and crafts exhibition in Crane Street in 1888 . |
| 8 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 9 | With our three kids , all under six , settled in their beds we considered the next stage , which would take us 370 miles further to our destination . |
| 10 | Before the meeting they celebrated the 70th birthday of churchwarden Rosemary Paxton and to mark the occasion and her many years of service to the church presented her with a basket of flowers . |
| 11 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 12 | In the twilight of his playing days he won a Second Division Championship medal with Preston North End . |
| 13 | At the end of year nine it was make my mind up time on my GCSE options , there was no doubt which I wanted to take , drama , but my father had other ideas he thought a second language would be far more constructive . |
| 14 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 15 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 16 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
| 17 | If you read an article or book twice you will probably be surprised by the many new things you discover the second time . |
| 18 | Might be more than that Martine and Mrs she had the next caravan to , to me |
| 19 | She first met Molly Braithwaite when , as Director of Physical Education and Social Activities at the Central London Polytechnic she opened the first Medau Rhythmical Movement class with Molly as its teacher . |
| 20 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 21 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 22 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 23 | He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery towards the end of World War I. He obtained a third class in literae humaniores at Oxford in 1921 but a pass with distinction in the LLB at Edinburgh in 1924 . |
| 24 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 25 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
| 26 | that was my twenty first birthday we bought that on , so that was before Gary was born and er , that had black screw on legs as well , the televisions had black screw , oh we did n't have a television we had a second hand television about a year after we were married and I remember Coronation Street starting , that started about when we got married . |
| 27 | ‘ Last month we had a 10th birthday party for her and she invited nine friends , which she seemed to enjoy very much . |
| 28 | For many young academics they provide the first step in the ladder of publications , now an essential requisite for career advancement . |
| 29 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 30 | Gloucester went on to the final that season while Gosforth merged with the Newcastle club to create a new force in northern rugby … this season they lead the second division … they 're unbeaten too … so Gloucester are up against it |