Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only nothing happened the next day and Chesarynth knew she was right not to trust herself because she could n't tell waking from dreams of an endless corridor with people whispering about her behind locked doors . |
| 2 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 3 | is totally different so I did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds |
| 4 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 5 | Then suddenly she remembered the third bedroom , and sat up , hugging her knees . |
| 6 | As she did so she noticed a second man , who peered with interest from the passenger seat of the utility . |
| 7 | So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes |
| 8 | Lambert hesitated , finding excuses in wanting to oversee the complete destruction of the flaming balloon , or wondering where the Triplane was , or perhaps they had a third balloon somewhere … |
| 9 | So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear . |
| 10 | Perhaps he witnessed the first assault . |
| 11 | So he had the first name of somebody famous . |
| 12 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 13 | ‘ Normally they had a second soprano in the wings for the high D flat at the end . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia . |
| 15 | Whenever there was a movement by the woodpile , the sniper fired , and soon he hit a third man . |
| 16 | Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life ! |
| 17 | Off we went the next day and had nearly got to the shop when Dad spotted a relief officer . |
| 18 | Will you please try and act it out like we did the Twelfth Night the bit with Mrs , and see whether you can revive your idea of why Johnson , what is the nature of , of Johnson 's comic art . |
| 19 | Thankfully we had the last laugh when that french fellow ( I ca n't remember his name ) scored the winner . |
| 20 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 21 | This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’ |
| 22 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 23 | Carefully he scraped every last vestige of ice-cream from his bowl , then stood up . |
| 24 | Cos originally I had the last session but we cancelled . |
| 25 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 26 | Now I had the first set of these dividers over in this country . |
| 27 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 28 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 29 | Are n't you tired the next day ? |
| 30 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |