Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Bought my Paradise Lost in a second hand book and I ga , shop , and I gave it to Marion .
2 Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one .
3 I 'd not done an adaptation before and my fears grew with the first reading of the book , simply because of the enormity of the task . ’
4 The war came nearer and my family went with the last train out of Maymyo , with hundreds of Anglo-Burman mothers and children proceeding northwards to Shwebo or Myitkyina for air evacuation to Assam .
5 Her mum arrived on the fourth day of the honeymoon , ’ he said .
6 Their friendship continued for the next few days .
7 Her eyes flickered for a split-second to see Lucenzo 's reaction .
8 Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits .
9 Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and
10 In an attempt to win the people over from Bogomilism , the Hungarians introduced the Franciscans into Bosnia , and their influence continued into the twentieth century .
11 Taking the menu out of the nearest gentleman 's hand , she laid it flat on the table , and with her pencil pointed to the first item , then mimed drinking .
12 The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system .
13 Erteco now has almost 400 stores and its sales leapt by a third last year to FFr4 billion ( $155m ) .
14 But her voice quivered on the last word as she remembered the cold , dispassionate violence of the man in the alehouse .
15 Significantly their arrival coincided with the first wave of summer visitors in more southerly parts of Britain , including wheatears reported as far north as Staffordshire .
16 According to the US Mortgage Bankers ' Association , the number of homeowners more than 30 days behind in their repayments fell in the second quarter of the year to its lowest level in 10 years .
17 Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up .
18 For many its decline began before the First World War , as a consequence of its inability to maintain the trade-union and working-class support in the face of the challenge of the Labour Party .
19 His condition deteriorated over the next week until he required ventilation .
20 A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ .
21 And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time .
22 He is confident he will gain the 6pc swing needed to secure the seat and says a Labour victory will ‘ finish off ’ what his colleague started at the last election in 1987 .
23 And his voice rose on the last two words .
24 His voice trembled for the first time .
25 It was already poured , and just as his hand closed on the last glass with pale gold contents , he caught sight of Meryl near the window with Gladys .
26 It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives .
27 But what is particularly interesting in the context of what his house became in the Second World War — and indeed what it is today , a Post Office Engineering Training establishment — was his financial interest in the Anglo-American Telegraph Company .
28 YOUR HORSE FELL AT THE FIFTH .
29 Our problems started on the first pitch .
30 yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors .
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