Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just caught the last few minutes of a Yorkshire TV documentary , ‘ England 's Last Wilderness ’ , with David Bellamy burbling about the Pennines . |
| 2 | I now took the first positive steps , although still not without considerable misgivings . |
| 3 | I recently attended the 5th Euro Rugby Trophy Tournament at Leiden who have as their club motto ‘ Doorzetten Is Onze Kracht ’ ( Fortitude is our Strength ) , which the players have adapted to ‘ Drinkken Is Onze Kracht ’ — ‘ Drinking Is ’ … |
| 4 | We only switched the last few minutes on . |
| 5 | We just saw the last three letters and thought it was Colchester . ’ |
| 6 | We promptly bought the next two novels when they came out , and in the Bodleian catalogue I discovered Dolores , the early work of which no mention was made in the list of titles prefacing her later books . |
| 7 | We also discussed the next great problem in international affairs , that posed by the Soviet Union , that victorious and self-confident power , with which our politicians , and above all Ernest Bevin , were already grappling . |
| 8 | We barely knew any numbers at all at that time , but we got away with noise and after that we fast became the second loudest group in London playing gigs at Brighton , Hastings , Birmingham , Newcastle Tadcaster . |
| 9 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 10 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 11 | He was unopposed at Bewdley , and in the country as a whole , while losing a hundred seats ( the minimum which could be expected after 1931 ) , he still secured the second biggest majority of the century . |
| 12 | He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections . |
| 13 | It also saw the first major electoral success for Labour : twenty-nine Labour and Lib-Lab members were returned . |
| 14 | It also forced the ninth triple tie of the competition . |
| 15 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 16 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 17 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 18 | ‘ I think he really enjoyed the first few , then the stories and the music got so trite , but he 'd go ahead and do them . |
| 19 | He returned under a congressional amnesty to contest the 1988 presidential elections , when he narrowly lost the second round run-off ballot to the ID 's Rodrigo Borja Cevallos [ see p. 36097 ] . |
| 20 | But it is sometimes forgotten that as far back as 1909 he built his own aeroplane in which he then made the first recorded flight over Ireland . |
| 21 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |