Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Sunderland made no attempt to sit on their lead , however , and looked just as likely as Norwich to score in a second half which comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value .
2 To prove the point his shrimpfly caught the first salmon for 15 years when Kilmaurs Angling Club , of which he is chief fund raiser , visited a river near Crianlarich .
3 During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) .
4 A COMPLETE confidence trickster 's set was discovered in the van of a man who allegedly used a second identity to defraud a bank of thousands of pounds , a court heard .
5 It was this second man who now asked the first , the last , question .
6 When asked to describe auditory sensations , McKellar 's subjects frequently reported hearing snatches of music which could be recurrent … as is illustrated by a subject who recurrently imaged the last movement of Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto .
7 In 1319 a royal request for a grant was referred by the clergy to the pope who eventually allowed a tenth .
8 At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament .
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