Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 2 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 3 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 4 | In searching for publications this will give a skewed result for those supervisors who always name themselves as the first author in multi-authored works . |
| 5 | He grew morose after that and growled at the customers , it seems — so most took themselves to the next village for their ale . |
| 6 | The accent then moved itself onto the first syllable ( ‘ ga rrage ’ ) , and now the pronunciation is sometimes changed to ‘ garridge ’ . |