Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the beginning of November we instigated our first car boot sale , which we reluctantly accept was less than a 110 per cent success . |
| 2 | In the city of Cologne he visited his first night club . |
| 3 | In Santiago we had our first taste of the famed Spanish seafood . |
| 4 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 5 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
| 6 | In May they released their first single , ‘ Eleven O'Clock Tick Tock ’ , and spent the rest of the summer touring Britain . |
| 7 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
| 8 | Erm , in Aberdeen we had our first woman 's festival in nineteen ninety and we 're ready to have our second festival in nineteen ninety two . |
| 9 | In Edinburgh he published his first pamphlet , Considerations on the Propriety of Establishing a Colony on one of the Sandwich Islands , in 1816 . |
| 10 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
| 11 | On Saturday she had her first visit from a member of her family her grandson , the Duke of York . |
| 12 | On Thursday we gave our first lecture to a wider audience , and were surprised that more than a hundred turned up . |
| 13 | And on that first night at home we had our first real sexual encounter , a rather one-sided one , with Dana quite passive . |
| 14 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 15 | At Banff I climbed my first and last mountain — Mount Rundle . |
| 16 | At Vigo we saw our first other light aircraft since leaving France . |
| 17 | At Scunthorpe I gave my first performance just after half-time — a blast of Star Wars . |