Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 2 | A nice basket of flowers arrived at our house the next day . |
| 3 | As Simone de Beauvoir argued in her book The Second Sex , man has constructed woman as ‘ the Other ’ , as the one who is not oneself . |
| 4 | The anthem : ‘ Blessed by Thou , Lord God of Israel ’ was sung by Thomas Street Church choir and the sermon was preached by Mr Guard who chose as his text the fourth verse of the twenty-seventh Psalm : ‘ One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after , that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life , to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in His temple . ’ |
| 5 | Sebastian 's hat was back on the coat fixture when Leith left for her office the next morning . |
| 6 | During the first opium war ( 1840–2 ) , after Hong Kong was occupied by the British expedition , Matheson purchased for his firm the first plots of land offered for sale on the island . |