Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 2 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 3 | ‘ Why could n't you say it quietly the first time ? |
| 4 | Anyway , it was good fun , so we did it again the next year . |
| 5 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | The clerical representatives were a formidable number — forty-two diocesan proctors ( two from each diocese ) and twenty-three cathedral proctors ( including Bath as well as Wells , and Coventry as well as Lichfield ) — and with the rest of the clergy they constituted something over a third of the whole parliament . |
| 7 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 8 | ‘ If the Scottish Secretary breaches the written undertaking he gave us then the next letter he should write is his resignation letter . ’ |