Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Paris ! ) , then took a growler and made for the first address I had . |
| 2 | But Labour ‘ won ’ on a minority vote and governed for the next five years . |
| 3 | While the aide translated these remarks Joseph Sherman took the opportunity to glance around the room and noticed for the first time that groups of diminutive Annamese were standing quietly with their wives among the taller European men and women . |
| 4 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 5 | In the meantime , the railway 's in-service stock is being repainted in a new dark red and ivory livery , mainly by one locally based volunteer and adorned for the first time with the railway 's insignia . |
| 6 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 7 | These massive constructions of bamboo and paper , often passed down from year to year and re-covered for the next May festival by a new team , were far beyond the capacity of any individual flyer . |