Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately after this big moment the earth is convulsed with horror we have Eve 's first speech , presumably after the fall the first speech in a state of sin , and this is it ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees in Paradise , of operation blest to sapinense hitherto obscured in famed and thy fair fruit let hang as to not end created , but henceforth my early care not without song each morning and dew/due pray shall tend thee and the fertile burden ease of thy full branches offered free to all . |
| 2 | Shortly after the war the first commercial computers were developed . |
| 3 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 4 | As Julie finally found a parking space close to the bank the first droplets of rain were striking the windscreen of the car , like oversized tears . |
| 5 | Later in the year the first of a series of athletic matches between School and Stockport School was held , organized by the respective P.E . |
| 6 | Later in the afternoon the first peals of thunder rolled across the sky . |
| 7 | Later in the programme the fiftieth birthday of Britain 's first jet fighter . |
| 8 | Right on the whistle the third division team almost broke the post with a shot … they made a game of it … but at 3-2 Swindon were cruising … |
| 9 | Earlier in the evening the first year food technology student , who had heart surgery in 1987 , had been at a disco in the Students Union . |