Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [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 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes .
5 It was part of a nationwide celebration of the six million adult students currently giving themselves a second chance .
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