Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Agassi withdrew last Friday from the grass court event in Halle , but yesterday he took the last remaining wild card reserved for him by tournament organisers hopeful he would be fit to play .
2 Now we have the first royal re-marriage and it is barely raising a ripple .
3 I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find .
4 Then they rounded the last sweeping curve of the driveway and saw the dark bulk of the big house squatting in the near distance , dimly outlined by the fitful moonlight .
5 Sure enough , not long afterwards she heard the first faint sounds of pursuit .
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