Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently . |
| 2 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 3 | She finished the sandwich and started on the second , eating hungrily . |
| 4 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 5 | Many of these features of the modern world were only the surface manifestations of the much greater structural changes begun in early industrialism and accelerated since the Second World War . |
| 6 | He turned right and went half-way along the corridor and knocked at the fourth door . |
| 7 | He pulled out a bundle and looked at the first address , but he did n't recognise it . |
| 8 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 9 | The officer pointed towards the Hungarian frontier post and descended upon the next vehicle in the queue . |
| 10 | The offensive was launched on 18 June but was deeply unpopular with much of the rank and file and collapsed in the first week of July . |
| 11 | I crumpled this ticket and waited for the next to be called . |
| 12 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 13 | She snapped shut the diary and looked at the next piece of paper . |
| 14 | But the equaliser was always on offer and arrived in the 73rd minute . |
| 15 | If I pressed my eye flat to the ground and looked into the next garden , the big bushes there with thick tall stems and flat leaves seemed part of a mysterious tropical forest . |
| 16 | A few minutes after Amiss had gone Sunil cleared up the fragments of cheese and biscuits , deposited them neatly in the waste-paper basket , picked up a couple of books and some blank paper and descended to the next storey . |
| 17 | Setting the briefcase back down , she dug the notes out of the pocket and turned to the last page , smiling rather nastily . |
| 18 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 19 | Nadine clicked her tongue and smiled for the first time . |
| 20 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 21 | Outside a grand villa in the same city , a priest in an assortment of ramshackle clothing stopped his mule in the gateway , descended by lifting a leg and bellowed to the first person he met , which was Tobie . |
| 22 | The plaintiff , a four year old child , entered the house through an unsecured door and fell from a second floor window . |
| 23 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 24 | There was the cancellation of the second Test after the Guyanese government decided to deport Robin Jackman because of his South African connections ; and then came the real tragedy , when Ken Barrington had a heart attack and died during the third Test in Barbados . |
| 25 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 26 | It was when I took my jacket off and stood before a mirror and saw for the first time that all I was was a pair of scarlet braces , that I realised that evangelism was n't enough . |
| 27 | Doris smoothed a hand over her rounded knee and waited for the next question . |
| 28 | Feminism for women like me grew out of our dissatisfaction with our social lot and coincided with the first books that provided a context and a theoretical explanation for what we felt . |
| 29 | He swung one foot out , to the next joist , then put out one hand and felt for the next rafter ; he transferred his weight carefully . |
| 30 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |