Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews . |
| 2 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 3 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 4 | The following example comes from the interview with Sally Jordan , a factory worker and a dustman 's wife ; she belongs in the first group of working-class women whose early positive or non-committal response turns into predominantly negative feeling : |
| 5 | The second letter is difficult to place since Leapor is responding to a gentleman whose comments on her work are relayed by someone else , or to whom she refers in the third person for reasons of politeness . |
| 6 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 7 | As she gradually picks up speed and moves towards the countryside she enters into the next stage of her journey . |
| 8 | Here she speaks for the first time about her ordeal to Margaret Hall . |
| 9 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says . |
| 11 | She comes from the 1st Torrington Pack in North Devon — just like Clare and Pippa . |
| 12 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 13 | He goes to work , and when he arrives he gets it working ; when he leaves , at the end of the day , it sleeps until the next morning . |
| 14 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 15 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 16 | Once , twice , smash , in it goes on the third kick . |
| 17 | so er I 've got to keep him off school today and see how he goes over the next day or two . |
| 18 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 19 | On approaching , from some distance off , the first greeting is given by the elegant shape of a belfry emerging from the surrounding greenery ; it belongs to the 17th century church of Santa Maria graced by the renowned painting of the Virgin by Pier Francesco Fiorentino . |
| 20 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 21 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 22 | He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy . |
| 23 | Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed . |
| 24 | ‘ Here 's fifty , ’ he shouts at the next table . |
| 25 | This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) . |
| 26 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 27 | The dream itself has no meaning ; the effect it has on the second person tells a great deal about that person . |
| 28 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 29 | It ships in the third quarter . |
| 30 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |