Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could visualize the first restless stirring among tribes on the steppes of Central Asia , then the terrifying eruption of hordes of unknown people : lurching , creaking wagons , unkempt women and children , squat , slit-eyed men in padded garments , innumerable horses , felt tents , troops of mounted archers forever on the move . |
| 2 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 3 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
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| 5 | If the person picks up the keys , then he or she can become the next sleeping beauty . |
| 6 | Wait until you can see the first true leaves between the two seed leaves . |
| 7 | In the next 12 weeks we could lose the next general election . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 9 | and unc we can replace the first original equation by |
| 10 | If the new arrangements are adequately funded and properly implemented , they will comprise the first major government initiative to foster care at home rather than in institutions . |
| 11 | When the goslings hatch , they will recognize the first moving object they see as the creature to follow around for the next few weeks . |
| 12 | In December 1963 it discussed whether or not it should contest the next local government elections but no decision was taken . |
| 13 | SCO boasts it 'll have the first COSE-compliant desktop on the market . |
| 14 | Deprived of the usual dash of digital and chemical additives , it could become the first easy-listening album for the post-E , no power generation . |
| 15 | He kept two bags always packed , one for hot climes and one for cold , so that immediately he heard of an eruption he could board the next available ship . |
| 16 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 17 | Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter on the sea breezes . |
| 18 | The announcement by Gray , 49 , caused widespread consternation amongst political commentators as his successful 12-year congressional career had led many to predict that he would become the first black Speaker of the House . |
| 19 | So he said that he would take the next available flight to Turkey immediately after the EPC meeting . |
| 20 | And if , one day , the pick-up does catch on over here with the vigour of Ray-Ban shades , Zippo lighters and Levi jeans , it will make the last great fashion car , the Golf GTi , look about as silly as velvet loon pants . |
| 21 | Constable reckons it will have the first UK-published book on the Waco disaster . |
| 22 | The buyer knows he can afford the first weekly payment , say : but a month later there 's the rent to pay , or a bigger fuel bill than expected , and there simply is n't enough income to cover all demands . |