Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I will fight Sipotai only if he attacks me first . ’
2 ‘ It was n't long before I had my first bite which was a 3 lb 7 oz chub .
3 It was not long before I started my next voyage , on 7th September , 1710 , as captain of my own ship this time .
4 ‘ You 'll ‘ take care of me ’ because you see yourself as getting it all when I breathe me last , do n't you , eh ?
5 Mollie had always been heavy , even as a teenager , so as she approached her fiftieth birthday she said ‘ it 's good to feel better and younger than ever ’ .
6 To punish them , you may leave it even longer before you see them next time .
7 Soon after he met his second wife , Hannah Anderson , a publican 's daughter from Gateshead , Gallacher was arrested for brawling with her brother under Newcastle 's High Level Bridge .
8 And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’
9 Exactly as he phoned me last night , and told me to come to the wedding . ’
10 And footballers booked a perm as soon as they got their first team place .
11 They will be ready to follow the ladder party as soon as they see its last man go through the window .
12 I shall take Zoe back to Lourdes as soon as she takes her first step as I know she will .
13 Winterbottom 's game has always been based on his uncompromising attitude on the field ever since he won his first cap against the Wallabies in 1982 .
14 Former headmistress Mary Liverseed held a party for friends at her Billingham home when she celebrated her 101st birthday on Saturday .
15 THE Duchess of York was back to her normal cheerful self yesterday as she undertook her second public engagement since the summer 's topless photos saga .
16 Students who are normally resident in Northern Ireland are not normally eligible for postgraduate awards from award-giving bodies in Great Britain even if they undertook their first degree at a university or polytechnic in Great Britain .
17 Does that mean even before they pay their first premium ?
18 While I came to the Arctic when I realized that climbing , my first love , was losing its appeal , Tony was born to the area , loving it , one might believe , even before he saw his first photograph of it .
19 Even before he reached his nineteenth birthday , he had begun to make a name as a choreographer , and one of the works he made then is still danced : only a trifle , but full of the wit that was one of his gifts .
20 Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months .
21 Thomas last played in the full England side 13 months ago when he won his first cap in Saudi Arabia and did little of consequence .
22 I was in a panic about keeping the weight off , and that 's when I think things got serious , particularly when I started my first term at university .
23 Beck had a final round of 70 for a 12-under par total of 276 , but it was a tight finish , particularly when he bunkered his second shot behind the 18th green .
24 The relatives and friends who are left behind can also become entrapped in an overwhelming feeling that says ‘ I must be there when he takes his last breath ’ ; ‘ I must n't miss any last word he utters ’ .
25 You are of course free to write anything else while you leave your first piece fallow .
26 But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate .
27 As an example , take someone who tries to give up smoking and thinks that they have lost the fight completely when they want their first cigarette .
28 Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship .
29 Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship .
30 Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship .
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