Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kapil had a frustrating day yesterday as a light drizzle washed out the fourth day 's play in India 's first Test against South Africa in Durban . |
| 2 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 4 | She felt his warm stickiness on her tongue , and rolled it around her mouth before placing her lips over the tip of his dying penis to suck up the last few drops . |
| 5 | Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting . |
| 6 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 7 | The series was alight — only for it to be thoroughly dampened in Guyana when relentless rain washed out the second Test completely , for only the fifth time in Test history . |
| 8 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 9 | Already weak and exposed where Midnight was concerned , this unexpected consideration broke down the last of the barriers Jess had constructed against the old woman . |
| 10 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 11 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 12 | That was bad enough but Italian Constantino Rocca , who had been five shots behind the 39-year-old Scot coming up the last , sank a six feet putt for a birdie three to close the gap by two . |
| 13 | Worcester finished on 184 for eight before a torrential thunderstorm washed out the last 90 minutes play . |
| 14 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 15 | Other companies reluctantly followed suit , though it was not until 1910 that the Great Western Railway phased out the last of its second-class carriages . |
| 16 | But the other lot come down the next night , and the night after that , and the night after that , all week they come down , about 40 , 50 of them , from all over … |
| 17 | Consider the boys ' version of the ‘ numbers game ’ at the beginning of ‘ Fighting talk ’ : ‘ and the other lot come down the next night , and the night after that and the night after that , all week , about 40 , 50 , from all over … ’ |