Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 3 | You 've made my life complete for the first time since your mother died . ’ |
| 4 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He smiled and Robyn watched and felt her heart stop for the hundredth time . |
| 7 | ‘ Her mum arrived on the fourth day of the honeymoon , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 9 | The Damiani family made their decision to leave in the third week of April after snipers in Tel Aviv began shooting into the centre of Jaffa , sending at least one bullet into David Damiani 's home . |
| 10 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 11 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 12 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 . |
| 13 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 14 | Its onset coincides with the first appearance of Zea pollen . |
| 15 | BRIGADE batsmen Marshall Kilgore and Stephen Smyth hit top form at the weekend as their club cruised into the third round of the All Ireland Schweppes Cup . |
| 16 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Their escape ended on the seventh circuit and during a hectic last couple of laps in which there were a number of attacks by Andrew Moss ( Ballymena RC ) Movilla 's John West , Mark Smyth ( Newry , O'Rourke 's ) and Jonathan Kenny ( Movilla ) , it was left to the sprint with Fullerton just shading the decision ahead of Brennan . |
| 19 | Discussion revealed that women 's interests lay very much with lambing , first aid , dairy husbandry and financial management although quite a few were doubtful about their capacity to cope with the last of these subjects . |
| 20 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |
| 21 | Its façade dates from the second half of the 18C and is by Josef Jägr , an Austrian from the Tyrol . |
| 22 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 23 | The statue of the Archangel Michael had its head removed in the seventeenth century by a marksman in the castle . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The historic town of Great Malvern , 7 miles away , came into prominence through its spa waters in the 18th and 19th centuries , although its origins as several disconnected villages are much earlier ; indeed its beautiful priory church was completed by craftsmen in 1460 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At the same time a platoon from A Company were finishing their week attached to the 1st Battalion the Danish Life Regiment , during which time they were thundering over training areas in the Danish Ml 13 Armoured Personnel Carrier . |
| 28 | But her voice quivered on the last word as she remembered the cold , dispassionate violence of the man in the alehouse . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Its history begins in the last years of the ninth century . |