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

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1 As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history .
2 Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year !
3 As a result , despite his good looks and affable personality , women scarcely gave him a second glance .
4 Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result .
5 Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) .
6 But I still enjoyed it the second time .
7 Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought .
8 I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes .
9 Nowadays , she probably never even gave him a second thought .
10 Charlie parted with a penny and was handed a bagful , but no one even gave him a second glance .
11 And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time .
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