Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Republic 's President , Mary Robinson , was the toast of a remote island community today when she opened the first licensed premises on Inishturk in Clew Bay . |
| 2 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 3 | The royal couple found that seclusion at Broadlands , Earl Mountbatten 's home in Hampshire , where they spent the first three days of their honeymoon , followed by a leisurely Mediterranean cruise on board the royal yacht Britannia which they joined at Gibraltar . |
| 4 | And Malcolm Wilson made it two home drivers in the top 10 when he completed the last timed phase in seventh place behind the wheel of his Ford Sierra Cosworth . |
| 5 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 6 | So in 1901 he decided to emigrate with his wife and two children to Australia , where he became the first full-time missioner of the Adult Deaf Society of Victoria , which celebrated its centenary in 1984 . |
| 7 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 8 | Within a year he had so impressed Telford that he was invited to become his assistant in London , where he spent the next three years , until his father 's illness in the summer of 1824 prompted Telford to send him back to Inverness ; two months later his father died . |