Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’
2 MacPhail said : ‘ I twisted my knee early in the second half but I stayed on the field .
3 I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on .
4 He spat on my face once in the first year .
5 ‘ Sarah Perkins took her sister home in the last stages of consumption ; how I sympathized with her distress !
6 There have been people in Australia for the last 40000 years and claims for their presence there in the last interglacial have been made .
7 Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left .
8 Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature
9 Devoid of ideas beyond booting hopeful balls forward in the first half , Alton got their act together in the second , coming from behind to take the points through sheer hard graft .
10 Remember Liverpool only got their act together in the last couple of months and finished 6th .
11 LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night .
12 Meanwhile , the second capacitor passes its charge on to the third capacitor .
13 Ahl , 18 , from Exeter , outplayed her opponent particularly in the second set when she took the first five games .
14 Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time .
15 His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 .
16 Loyal to their oath down to the last breath , the 6th Army , under the exemplary leadership of General Field Marshal Paulus , succumbed to the superior force of the enemy and the unfavourable conditions .
17 Most players have a battered specimen lying around in a cupboard somewhere ; a few sensible types even use one as their main instrument , and as a result will probably retain their hearing well into the next century .
18 The older colleges , which traced their history back to the eighteenth century 's ‘ dissenting academies ’ had not kept the high standing they had then enjoyed .
19 Its survival far into the next century is unlikely .
20 They 've won their way through to the first round of the FA Cup where they 'll be away to West Bromwich Albion .
21 But Tottenham 's problems pale by comparison with those of last night 's opponents ; should Coventry beat Sheffield Wednesday at home tonight and win or draw here on Saturday , then County will be on their way back to the Second Division .
22 By continuing on the diet plan the indiscretion will work its way out over the next day or two .
23 There was no time for her sandwich , so she worked her way steadily through the next three cases .
24 By measuring the scattering of X-rays by hirudin , when linked to a key blood coagulation factor called thrombin , his team deduced its structure down to the last atom .
25 And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years .
26 But the other half wanted the day to go on forever , for Penry to drive at a snail 's pace on the way back to prolong their time together to the last possible minute .
27 The capitalist class became dominant , and although the feudal aristocracy maintained aspects of its power well into the nineteenth century , it was fighting a losing battle .
28 Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on .
29 DEAN Bullock was the hero for Three Rivers after a sudden death victory pushed his club through to the third round of the Thornton Cup .
30 John Collins had put his side ahead in the 50th minute after a succession of chances were passed up , but Gunn 's suicidal challenge on Ciri Sforza near the end led to Georges Bregy 's penalty
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