Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [num ord] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she came second among 60 contestants in a competition to find the telephone operator with the most pleasant and efficient manner . |
| 2 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 3 | It can take some comfort from the rise of 7.5 per cent in its vote and from the fact that it came second to Labour in so many seats and is at last beginning to nibble at Labour 's huge majorities in the Central Belt . |
| 4 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 5 | Alex , Chris and I sat next to each other in our underpants , staring at the others : nudity revealed a lot of scarred , disfigured bodies , with missing fingers and toes , the marks of surgical operations , and huge tattoos . |
| 6 | I 've also heard Dr wishing to move a new five , Dr I think yours will be five B , and I call first of all on Mr . |
| 7 | And I think first of all , make sure you 've got it right , make sure you are doing things for the right reasons , and you are concerned about the right issues , but then , shout about it from the rooftops . |
| 8 | Namely if you if you take first of all the staring point that the new settlement should have good access to primary network , you immediately limit the area of search to the radial routes out of York . |
| 9 | As I alluded to earlier on , voltage gated channels have been cloned and sequenced and they show first of all homology between all three classes , sodium , er calcium and potassium . |
| 10 | Sarah was kept busy replenishing dishes , and every time she had to go down to the kitchen she was afraid of missing the Reverend Morey , but he appeared last of all . |
| 11 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 12 | Underpowered , overweight and outdated , the once 200 strong fleet , affectionately known as ‘ Whistlers ’ was in decline from the mid-1970s , and when major overhauls ceased at BREL Crewe in 1981 it was only a question of time before they disappeared first from top link Eastern Region duties , and finally in 1985 freight workings originating from the North West . |
| 13 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 14 | Magic Night is the ugly duckling of French racing who was transformed into a golden swan when she ran second to Suave Dancer in this race last year . |
| 15 | Then last weekend at Thruxton he showed his true potential when he finished second behind Australian Russ Ingall 's Van Diemen , and ahead of all the other Swift drivers . |
| 16 | The Rottweiler was recognized as a police dog , and though it came fourth behind three other breeds , it was a start , a start to a new career and one the breed took to with relish . |