Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 3 | Billie Jean King played in the first five Federation Cup finals . |
| 4 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 5 | Mark Bright and David Hirst struck in the first half , with Carlton Palmer and Roland Nilsson adding two more to kill off Rangers . |
| 6 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 7 | Neil Cowie goes into the second row , Billy McGinty to loose forward and skipper Dean Bell returns to centre . |
| 8 | Richard Carlile followed with the first book on contraception in 1826 ( Every Woman 's Book ) , followed by Moral Physiology by the American socialist Robert Dale Owen , 1830 , and Dr Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy in New York in 1832 . |
| 9 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 10 | Richard Rolle wrote in the fourteenth century of spiritual direction as ‘ full merry counsel with his ghostly Father ’ . |
| 11 | LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny . |
| 12 | Irishman Ken Doherty eased into the fifth round , thrashing Steve Longworth 5–0 but Eugene Hughes lost 5–4 to Scot John Lardner . |
| 13 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 14 | Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash . |
| 15 | David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals . |
| 16 | Valerie Mitchell lived in the next road and travelled to work on the same bus as Paula . |
| 17 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 18 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 19 | Most northeastern State Legislatures ratified the Amendment in 1972 , with three smaller New England States following in the next two years . |
| 20 | Simon Pardy mumbled for the third or fourth time in the aggressive undertone which seemed to be his preferred manner of replying to any remark . |
| 21 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 22 | Master Mansell INDYCAR points leader Nigel Mansell turned in the second fastest time today in the first day of qualifying for tomorrow 's Detroit Grand Prix . |
| 23 | Actress Jane Seymour posed for a 40th birthday article with husband David Flynn and their children in March 1991 . |
| 24 | The election in Martinique Saint-Luce went to a second round in July when the PPM defeated the UDF . |
| 25 | But if you do use a far-fetched or archaic word like valetudinarian , for example , as Jane Austen did on the first page of Emma , be sure you know why you are using it . |
| 26 | Elisabeth Leonskaja opts for the second of these views in her performance of No. 1 , and the deliberate- sounding first movement that results is not altogether convincing . |
| 27 | Michael Martin , the Felsted captain , and William Cooper shared in a second wicket partnership of 239 , both scoring centuries , before Martin declared half an hour after lunch at 246 for one . |
| 28 | Mr Nicholls spoke for the first time . |
| 29 | A second IMF-approved emergency economic plan , announced in December , included a 3 per cent sales tax and a 10 per cent surcharge on all imports , raising fears that members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades ( GATT ) , to which Costa Rica acceded as the 100th member on Nov. 20 [ see p. 38259 ] , might retaliate in kind . |
| 30 | Sir Haydn died on the 3rd June 1950 . |