Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] [pron] [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 | Er just before the war when I saw her last . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | at the moment now next month when you get your next bill that ten pound thirty will be worth about twenty ninety one . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Vons , in turn , became her way out of Midway City , Orange County , the Californian backwater where she spent her first 20 years . |
| 16 | Vaux Durham Senior League FELLING , on a day when the weather was the real winner , created history when they recorded their first league victory . |
| 17 | At the time when you started your first gallery was it unusual for a woman to be in charge ? |
| 18 | I think she really took a fancy to you — talked about you all the time when I saw her last summer . |