Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the second half we had 2 headers/shots off the line within 1 minute . |
2 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
3 | But on the second landing I found small groups of them with machine-guns lazily overlooking the booking hall . |
4 | There were five ancient parishes within the Borough of Bedford and in the second half of the eighteenth century they experienced increasing difficulty in dealing with the poor in the town . |
5 | During the first decade of the eighteenth century she made further journeys through some of the southern counties and about 1712 she visited Epsom , Hampton Court , and Windsor . |
6 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
7 | Just before the first Test they rejected blind-side flankers Mick Galwey and Mike Teague and chose to play Ben Clarke , tour No 8 , out of position . |
8 | By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters . |
9 | ‘ When we played St Helens in our first match we had nine players who had never competed together before , ’ he said . |
10 | By his first wife he had three sons and three daughters . |
11 | On Paul 's first day he arranged four appointments for our consultants with prospective clients , and has since gone from strength to strength . |
12 | My fourth offence I spent another three weeks on remand , and my fifth offence I spent one month . |
13 | 16.16 In our first Report we proposed two attainment targets for reading for ages 5 to 11 . |
14 | The first thing he did this morning : phoned Dirkin . |
15 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
16 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
17 | That was the first time I had any idea ! ’ |
18 | The first time I played this competition my team happened to come first . |
19 | The first time I met this creature she was an unlettered half-caste peasant who smelt of stale sweat and dead chickens . |
20 | ‘ The first time I held those keys , I put them in my mouth and felt my bones had turned to gold , ’ she announces . |
21 | For the first time she saw small lines of weariness grooving the side of his well-shaped mouth , as his shoulders flexed beneath her gaze . |
22 | Then Bernard made two critical decisions ; for the first time he organized some advertising and he hired a new shop manageress . |
23 | At eight hours after the last injection they found 17.0 ml emptying , which was not significantly different from postprandial gall bladder contraction without treatment . |
24 | Oops , in my last mail I had 12 players in the lineup . |
25 | In the last chapter we introduced two notions of equity : horizontal equity , or the equal treatment of equals , and vertical equity , the redistribution from the ‘ haves ’ to the ‘ have-nots ’ . |
26 | In the last chapter I outlined certain similarities between karate competition and boxing . |
27 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
28 | The next day they invented another story , and then another . |
29 | He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster . |
30 | The next day he attended another concert at which Wolfgang played the ‘ glorious concerto ’ written the previous December for Mademoiselle Paradis ( K.456 in B flat ) . |