Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 2 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 3 | While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted . |
| 4 | All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing . |
| 5 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 6 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 7 | As a matter of fact I usually just give him the first line or two and leave him to get on with it . |
| 8 | So they do n't frighten them , you know , if you 're lying there you 're having a heart attack or you just had one the last thing you want to hear is sort of the noise of the siren , the panicking noise of a siren . |
| 9 | Individualism of this variety strives to put individuals in their social context , but nevertheless gives them the last laugh . |
| 10 | As a result , despite his good looks and affable personality , women scarcely gave him a second glance . |
| 11 | ‘ You could always consider it a last request . ’ |
| 12 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 13 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 14 | My movements up to this had been quite natural , and if I could continue to make her think I was unaware of her presence , she would possibly give me a second chance . |
| 15 | You 're always give him the last sweet to him ! |
| 16 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 17 | We always know what the next step in our lives should be — which area of our lives needs to be resolved or changed — and we need to find the courage and self-love to start moving . |
| 18 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 19 | The doctrine is that whenever you are faced with a decision , you always follow what the last person who was faced with the same decision did . |
| 20 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
| 21 | D. Hey , 1981 ) Mackworth occasionally appears as ‘ Judge Mackworth ’ , erroneously gives him a third wife . |
| 22 | Announcing this programme , the then Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , said dramatically , ‘ Our nuclear pioneers have now given us a second chance — to lead another industrial revolution in the second half of the twentieth century . ' |
| 23 | And would Feargal now give him the third degree ? |
| 24 | Whatever time I ran him back , there was always a smiling , cheerful member of staff to greet him , strap him into the stair lift , help him to undress if necessary and even bring him a last cup of tea if he felt like one . |
| 25 | The men lounging beside the gate did n't even give them a second glance . |
| 26 | Most women I know would n't even give it a second thought . |
| 27 | It is most unlikely that without the reformulation a hearer would have even understood what the first segment was about . |
| 28 | Two indeed were peers , one the Lord Belasyse with whom Willys again quarrelled fiercely , perhaps even sending him a second challenge . |
| 29 | Well ask him the next time you see him . |
| 30 | Well do it the next day then Geoff . |