Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 2 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 3 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 4 | Armed envoys of Life President Dr Hastings Banda had apprehended Chakufwa Chihana , the British-educated trade union leader mandated to sow the first seeds of a Malawi spring , and the Catholic church , a powerful ally , had fallen silent . |
| 5 | Despite onerous hours — he starts work at 4am and leaves the office about midnight having scanned the first editions of the next day 's newspapers — he has faith in his product , although he cheerfully admits that it needs tweaked into shape . |
| 6 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 7 | A ROMANTIC couple have become the first Britons to wed in Disney World , Florida . |