Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Hammond seemed to find his voice at last , but behind his smile , Lindsey could n't help but catch a faint note of desperation . |
| 2 | She 'd found her voice at last . |
| 3 | His sharp question brought a flush to the face of the man who was so insistent upon helping Jenna , and she decided to get her word in first in view of Alain 's forbidding looks . |
| 4 | We had some two hours sleep that night , then proceeded to align our position before first light . |
| 5 | He let the tears lie on his cheeks , and men cheered as he passed them , their young golden King who had won his crown at last . |
| 6 | What had settled his son at last was sheer exhaustion , and Alan 's absence . |
| 7 | Consumed by that monstrous need , it had entered their hiding-place at last . |
| 8 | Under the Labour plans , property owners who wished to convert their house to second home status would need to secure planning permission first from the local council . |
| 9 | A degree of surprise was expressed when McEnroe showed up here after a knee injury had forced his withdrawal from last month 's grand prix event in San Francisco . |
| 10 | The next day , she realised that the memory had lost its sting at last . |
| 11 | This simple account of cattle-raiding followed by an expedition to punish the thieves explains the situation on frontiers all over the world , and of course these punitive expeditions ( which sometimes took the form of pre-emptive strikes by people who wanted to get their retaliation in first ) were carried out without consulting any central government . |