Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 2 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 3 | We wanted to see the place where we thought the 20th century had begun . |
| 4 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 5 | Rush capped a brilliant evening for the home side in the 83rd minute when he volleyed a third goal from Dozzell 's headed clearance . |
| 6 | The Open champion had blitzed the famous old course with six birdies when he reached the 17th tee . |
| 7 | The American was streaking clear in the 100 metres hurdles when she hit the last barrier and crashed to the ground . |
| 8 | But whereas Paul Dukas seems to have seen the error of his ways when he edited a second volume ( vol.1 ) , d'Indy persisted with his ‘ improvements ’ : his Dardanus ( vol.10 ) and Zaïs ( vol.16 ) are every bit as misleading as Hippolyte . |
| 9 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 10 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 11 | It was one reason why I caught the first flight home . |
| 12 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 13 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 14 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
| 15 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |
| 16 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 17 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 18 | The whole is a tribute to the diplomatic skills and national divisions of the Generalsekretär of the Kulturstiftung , Klaus Maurice , whose view of German culture transcends normal politics , as his recent enabling of the British Library to buy the complete series of Tauchnitz classics shows ; for at the time when he retrieved the first piece of the treasure , Quedlinburg was still behind the Wall . |