Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 2 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 3 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 4 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 5 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 7 | I 've had to put it together over the last three days . |
| 8 | Tomorrow , she promised — not of course that Ven was likely to want to accompany her anywhere for a third day in a row — but tomorrow she would insist on going sightseeing on her own . |
| 9 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 10 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 11 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 12 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 13 | Acceptance of the separate stages of rehearsal , drafting , revision , editing and publishing as normal practice for writers encourages children with special needs to express their ideas in writing more confidently than was possible when children were expected to get everything right at the first attempt . |
| 14 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 15 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |
| 16 | Canary Wharf , the tallest building in Europe , fails to shape itself adequately at the fiftieth storey and is dull as a consequence . |
| 17 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 18 | The rest of the band were not available for comment , but all the record companies we spoke to assured us that they had enough new material from Various to see us well into the next century . |
| 19 | The rest of the band were not available for comment , but all the record companies we spoke to assured us that they had enough new material from Various to see us well into the next century . |
| 20 | My master 's plan was so successful that he arranged to show me again on the next market day . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 22 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |