Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [coord] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two were rewarded for their success and the third was punished for failing to exercise his stewardship in a proper manner . |
| 2 | It was one of the most marvellous events of my life and the first time that any of my work had ever been put on public show . |
| 3 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 4 | SOCIAL INSECTS are broadly divided into the presocial insects , in which the parents take care of their young , and the eusocial insects , in which the same applies , but the young grow up to take care of their parents and the next generation . |
| 5 | Fortunately , in addition to Helen Thomas 's absorbing , unselfconscious account of their courtship and the first years of their marriage , letters still survive which chart the growth of love . |
| 6 | ‘ Not this time , sweet , ’ he said raggedly , moving over her , slowly letting her feel some of his weight and the first seeking touch of his body . |
| 7 | Then he hit me with the butt of his gun and the next thing I remember is coming round to find my colleagues crouched anxiously beside me . |
| 8 | Nothing came of his enquiries and the first ten days of October passed uneventfully with his praise of Helen 's ‘ lovely portion of that maidenliness which you shall never lose ’ . |
| 9 | It involves three elements : a source of the objects , the screen with its slits and a second screen which incorporates some means of detecting the objects which hit the different parts of it . |
| 10 | and though they went away and the bomb squad came they went away they they had a problem with their vehicles and the second lot of dogs did n't like the area either |
| 11 | Olazabal ( pictured ) will spend December in Northern Spain hunting with his father and the first month of the New Year with the rest of his family . |
| 12 | I had an easy 2 hour labour and there I suddenly was , holding my beautiful baby daughter Danielle in my arms and the last thing on my mind from that moment on was work . |
| 13 | He slipped something in my wine and the next thing I knew was that we were on the Continent . |
| 14 | night in my tower And the next thing |
| 15 | It was a turning point in their lives and the first contact they had ever had with such youngsters . |
| 16 | ‘ Currently she 's got a lot of our designs in her wardrobe and the last time she was in Australia we had dinner together . ’ |
| 17 | Maisie sat in the corner of the kitchen with one chocolate bar in her mouth , another in her right hand , another in her lap and a fourth beside her on the draining board , in case anything should happen to the other three . |
| 18 | ‘ In the end , he put a cartridge in his mouth and the next thing we heard was a shot and the police rushed in . ’ |
| 19 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 20 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 21 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 22 | Between that visit to my surgeon and the next , towards the end of January , there was Christmas and the depth of the winter . |
| 23 | So as we came to a stop the hatch was opened and this young fellow put one foot on the throttle quadrant , another on my shoulder and the next one on the top of my helmet and he was out . |
| 24 | I feel the wind on my face and the first drops of a summer rain shower falling on my hair . |
| 25 | I just felt a burning sensation on my cheek and the next thing there was just blood . |
| 26 | ‘ They knew they had a hell of a battle on their hands and the first thing I stressed was that we had to fight to win the ball — and we did , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Perhaps you 're just playing your cards close to your chest and the first we 'll know about it is your engagement . |
| 28 | There is still a struggle to control the age , quality and temperature of food on your plate and the last leap forward seems to be to attain the perfect temprature for consumption . |
| 29 | He used to stick the stake in the hurdles and up over your back and the next pound , but the trouble was that you know what that slippery , just what 's left of the swede in the ground , when the stubble 's trodden in the mud , well the mud and the rain and you 've got to carry those , your stakes in the other hand and you 've got to get over those hurdles to set the pack . |
| 30 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |