Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reeling from the onslaught , he toppled forward but managed to keep his feet until a second attack pinned him to the wall and held him there . |
| 2 | He felt a second shot hit him in the back and knock him off his feet . |
| 3 | And the hump-backed blueness behind her spread a flat sheet of flesh as the first sunbeam touched it in the valley of shadow . |
| 4 | My first school expelled me at the end of second year . |
| 5 | He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather . |
| 6 | The first bullet hit him in the back , severing his spine . |
| 7 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 8 | That first visit convinced us of the magnitude of what lay ahead : the task of regreening our country . |
| 9 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 10 | Vuk Karadžić 's systematic compilations in the early nineteenth century brought them into the mainstream of European culture . |
| 11 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 12 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 13 | The next day took us past the quarter-way mark , and brought us within seven miles of In Salah . |
| 14 | Unisys Corp claims that the launch of its Communications Access Processor for linking Unix computers onto an SNA network last July ( UX No 396 ) — and which last week made it into the UK — has attracted ‘ rave reviews ’ . |
| 15 | The next morning found him on the practice fields as soon as the sun was up , battering his post as though it were a mortal enemy . |
| 16 | An early start the next morning found us on the ferry bound to the island of Santorini , around 112 kilometres to the north of Crete . |
| 17 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 18 | Penn 's next film had him in the headlines again . |
| 19 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |