Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Her mum arrived on the fourth day of the honeymoon , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 5 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But her voice quivered on the last word as she remembered the cold , dispassionate violence of the man in the alehouse . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His condition deteriorated over the next week until he required ventilation . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And his voice rose on the last two words . |
| 18 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ YOUR HORSE FELL AT THE FIFTH . |