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

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1 I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me .
2 You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’
3 On about the third day there was a bit of excited chatter between himself and Jim Thom ( the manager ) on the subject of obtaining a £100 Scottish banknote .
4 That 's unusual is n't it , because I always think , I mean I , this is really only about the second watch I 've ever had good one .
5 The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects .
6 Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon .
7 Halfway through the second day we got our chance to bat after bowling 132 scalding overs .
8 So for the first activity you 'll need to be in twos or threes .
9 When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss .
10 While Rosa Guy makes some parts of her book easy to understand , it was only after the second time I read the book that I was able to give unanswerable questions an answer .
11 Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual .
12 Former Coventry boss John Sillett spotted the Ndlovus — along with a third brother who plays in the German league — when City played Zimbabwe on tour a year ago .
13 Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men .
14 So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three .
15 So in the next chapter I shall look at the main strands of teaching in the Old Testament about the Holy Spirit , in the light of fuller perspective brought about by Jesus , the supreme bearer of the Spirit .
16 ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) .
17 We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty .
18 And many of us , I dare say , have tacitly ( perhaps wistfully ) consigned Ruskin 's views to the ash-can of history , along with other Utopian systems put together in the nineteenth century which the desolate history of our own century has made no longer tenable .
19 He were n't all over the sixth form I 've not got a to live with !
20 So on the third day she turned homeward , for what else could she do ?
21 About eight o'clock on the eighth day I was told to pack my stuff up , because at seven o'clock the next morning I was going to Styal .
22 There is a fine hall inside on the first floor which has a pendant timber roof and modern frescoes round the walls .
23 A heron appears , flapping ponderously across the voe and drops down beside a second bird I have n't seen , which is standing motionless in the shallows .
24 When it comes to that though there will be people from other green parties who who 'll be looking for accommodation so at the last minute we can
25 I walked in at the first door I saw .
26 The creche staff did a fine job of picking her up and delivering her back to our chalet , so by the second week we decided to take her skiing with us .
27 As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs .
28 Thus for the first portfolio we have .
29 Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss .
30 Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter .
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