Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
| 2 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 3 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 4 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 5 | We are back with the ninth century as a historiographical battleground : " It was the best of times , it was the worst of times … " |
| 6 | We 're on to the next area now are n't we ? |
| 7 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
| 8 | She treats us to her speciality sad gaze to camera , so we can see that rather society 's collapsing or her piles are hurting , and then we 're off to the next item . |
| 9 | In rugby we 're down to the last eight … in the Pilkington Cup … which means Gloucester are two matches away from Twickenham … they 've got a game on their hands tomorrow though … away to first division leaders Orrell |
| 10 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 11 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 12 | And then they 're off to the next one . |
| 13 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 14 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 15 | Having finished a job , they do n't sit around enjoying the results — it 's on to the next . |
| 16 | And when one house is improved to the limit , it 's on to the next there too . |
| 17 | Smash 'em all and it 's on to the next level . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes it does get me down , but I get over that and then it is off to the next place . ’ |
| 19 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 20 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 21 | It was back to the 2nd XI after that , but the memory will tingle for a while yet . |
| 22 | She said well it was down to the last two she said , I had a choice between a red and green cushion or a fitness test . |
| 23 | He was out in the last over before tea after completing his 15th Test century . |
| 24 | he was back with a second midway through the first half … and that was that … 2-0 … |