Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 2 | This arrangement obliges anyone sitting there to turn his head around sharply towards the left if he wants to see A … — especially anyone in the fourth chair , which is the farthest away . |
| 3 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 4 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 5 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 6 | Deictic function is pointing out something for the first time , often using demonstratives as in Look at that picture ! ; |
| 7 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 8 | It is therefore a good idea when preparing to teach a piece of video to start by viewing silently yourself on a first viewing before using a sequence in a lesson . |
| 9 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |