Example sentences of "[num ord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first I knew of the positive test came in a letter from the Jockey Club . |
| 2 | First she posed as a Roman centurion and did a bit of torture . |
| 3 | The first one occurred during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944 , when Eisenhower ordered preparations for the evacuation of Strasbourg , which had only just been liberated by Leclerc 's Armoured Division . |
| 4 | At first they managed with an old Hillman Minx estate , but they soon traded up to a Ford Transit van . |
| 5 | At first it looked like a dark patch of space . |
| 6 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 7 | First he looked through the typed notes that Diane had done for him . |
| 8 | First he flew on a full radius but with the lines passing through a ground hook . |
| 9 | From August 18–28th I went on a fabulous vacation in Maine , a canoe trip on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway . |
| 10 | Next I listened to the recent EMI disc comprising Dvořák 's American and Smetana 's From my life Quartets performed by the Alban Berg Quartet . |
| 11 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 12 | But at last she came to a painful decision . |
| 13 | At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question . |
| 14 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 15 | At last she queried in a calm voice , ‘ What 's the matter with you , Doreen ? |
| 16 | At last we turned off the main high road and approached the city of Leicester . |
| 17 | Next they went into the main building where part of the reprocessing cycle took place . |
| 18 | At last they came to the topmost ridge of the mountain , and there lay a great field of cloud ahead of them . |
| 19 | At last they emerged into a wide entrance hall , where a porter was loading a trolley , and two receptionists sat like bottled specimens in glass cages by the wall . |