Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second Test running we were treated to the sight of a batsman in plaster coming out to help a colleague reach his hundred , and both were successful . |
| 2 | We often reached our overdraft limit because of a sticky cashflow — and after taking on a large mortgage to pay for a new factory we could n't raise any further borrowing for the second production line we needed much sooner than expected . |
| 3 | For the first year in-country I was not employed . |
| 4 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 5 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 6 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 7 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 8 | During the second world war he played an active role in the opposition to the German occupation , eventually joining the Resistance , and creating the magazine Confluence , which was rapidly banned , and became an early edition of French samizdat . |
| 9 | During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade . |
| 10 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 11 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 12 | During the Second World War he made propaganda and training films for the US army . |
| 13 | The brewery used horse-drawn drays for beer deliveries in and around the East End , and during the Second World War it was hit hard when a German land mine damaged the brewery stables , killing and injuring many of the horses . |
| 14 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 15 | Luxemburg was vigorously criticised by a number of leading Marxists at that time , such as Otto Bauer and Karl Kautsky , and while she was in prison during the First World War she wrote a reply to her critics . |
| 16 | During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica . |
| 17 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 18 | During the First World War he was occupied with the Jurassic rocks of Raasay in connection with the exploitation of the ironstone and wrote a memoir on the subject , published in 1920 . |
| 19 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 20 | I 'm very glad to be having this debate as the last Council meeting we er put a motion down on P R which the Labour Group refused to discuss , and Councillor in the summer ma put some release out said he was in favour of it . |
| 21 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 22 | I suppose now we 've either got to cut through the next side street we come to and try to get to the main road , or turn round and find the canteen and start again . ’ |
| 23 | After the second World War they did n't have a economy in the second World War , now they have |
| 24 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 25 | For example , in discussing his plan to publish Der Freitheitsucher shortly after the First World War he wrote to Benjamin R. Tucker ( in English , for Tucker did not read German ) : ‘ The prices for printing and paper here are abominable , and I am not sure yet , if I can fulfill my plan . |
| 26 | The glam of the Signature model reminds me very much of the 40th Anniversary Tele we reviewed two or three years ago , and personally speaking — I should be objective , of course , but I do take Teles personally — gold-plated , figured-wood Teles do strike me as being a bit of a contradiction in terms . |
| 27 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 28 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 29 | After the end of the first World War she was active in the co-operative movement and the Labour Party , which was not common for a woman of her background in those early years . |
| 30 | At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels . |