Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agassi withdrew last Friday from the grass court event in Halle , but yesterday he took the last remaining wild card reserved for him by tournament organisers hopeful he would be fit to play . |
| 2 | Now we have the first royal re-marriage and it is barely raising a ripple . |
| 3 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 4 | Then they rounded the last sweeping curve of the driveway and saw the dark bulk of the big house squatting in the near distance , dimly outlined by the fitful moonlight . |
| 5 | THE Republic 's President , Mary Robinson , was the toast of a remote island community today when she opened the first licensed premises on Inishturk in Clew Bay . |
| 6 | STEVE CRAM will make his debut at 5,000 metres next month when he becomes the first British athlete to compete in South Africa for almost 20 years . |
| 7 | And Malcolm Wilson made it two home drivers in the top 10 when he completed the last timed phase in seventh place behind the wheel of his Ford Sierra Cosworth . |
| 8 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 9 | So in 1901 he decided to emigrate with his wife and two children to Australia , where he became the first full-time missioner of the Adult Deaf Society of Victoria , which celebrated its centenary in 1984 . |
| 10 | Sure enough , not long afterwards she heard the first faint sounds of pursuit . |