Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 2 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 3 | So they do n't frighten them , you know , if you 're lying there you 're having a heart attack or you just had one the last thing you want to hear is sort of the noise of the siren , the panicking noise of a siren . |
| 4 | Announcing this programme , the then Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , said dramatically , ‘ Our nuclear pioneers have now given us a second chance — to lead another industrial revolution in the second half of the twentieth century . ' |
| 5 | It is most unlikely that without the reformulation a hearer would have even understood what the first segment was about . |
| 6 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 7 | She had n't rejected him the first time , though , just evaded a decision , wanting him to strengthen it somehow . |