Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hit him in the right shoulder , the impact lifting him off his feet and sending him toppling towards the head of the stairs . |
| 2 | A rare eagle three at the eighth helped him to a 69 alongside Langer and a cluster of others . |
| 3 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 4 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 5 | The Templars first built it as a fortified manor but later generations had embellished it to make it more comfortable . |
| 6 | INGLEBOROUGH HAS BEEN a favourite mountain of mine ever since I first climbed it as a young man . |
| 7 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 8 | People certainly built last year who first saw us at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in 1984 and 1985 . |
| 9 | It was Chief Fyvie who first introduced me to the fine travelogue books of H.V. Morton when he loaned me a copy of ‘ In Search of Scotland ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |
| 11 | She must have some radar , he thought , that at the last saved her from the worst effects of his anger and frustration . |