Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … .
2 The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot .
3 How can I just ring her out of the blue and tell her that her daughter has married the first Italian she 's met , without telling any of us ? ’
4 Stirring it around herself , she looked down at her long body , noticing how her illness had removed the last spare flesh .
5 What I have found using these criteria will be the subject of the next two chapters , of which the chick is the sole and proud subject , but the rest of this chapter will be concerned , not with my own experiments , but those of the other hunters for god 's organism whose work has dominated the last decade .
6 Oh and his wife 's got the first name too and the name of the his wife too and then you begin to you begin to put a few equations together .
7 Hendry rallied after the break , winning four of the next five frames to trail 7-6 , but his countryman steadied to take the next two frames and seal victory .
8 The red bitch was the seventh in a line of dogs that had belonged to Kalchu 's family since his grandfather had brought the first one back from Tibet some forty years previously .
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