Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [num ord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other girl laid the last of the flowers in position , and slammed the van doors shut . |
| 2 | But as she mounted the first of the steps to the front door she sensed someone close to her . |
| 3 | Spatz studied the first of the files for a while , then held it out to Hammond . |
| 4 | As he reached them he heard the first of the police sirens in the distance . |
| 5 | Julie pointed out with devastating logic as she corrected the last of the school-books piled up on the large oak refectory table in front of her . |
| 6 | He watched the last of the brothers slip away still awed and silent through the cloister , and followed with a glance the swirl of Robert Bossu 's crimson skirts as he crossed the court with his two attendants at his heels . |
| 7 | Emboldened by Carters support , the Shah ordered the publications of the scurrilous attack on Khomeini which precipitated the first of the riots against him and , within a year , had led to his fall , by early 1979 , after what he saw as US failure to support him , and as he now looked for a refuge form Morocco he was less certain . |
| 8 | So while his real eyes glanced round at another vault of blank green rock , his A eyes saw the first of the ghosts sliding out of the stone to say hi . |
| 9 | A moment later he saw the second of the men go down with a sharp groan , clutching his balls . |
| 10 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 11 | For the excavation of the twin tunnels through water-bearing strata compressed air had to be used in conjunction with a much-improved design of the Greathead shield , which enabled the first of the tunnels under the Thames to be completed in only fifteen weeks . |
| 12 | On 6 January he attended the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to the trial , and then attended most sittings of the court . |
| 13 | At about the same time ( July 1956 ) Lord Rothermere decided to sell most of his 50 per cent Daily Mail stake in Associated-Rediffusion ; and he sold the remainder when he took a third of the shares in the new South/South-East franchise holder , Southern TV , in 1958 . |
| 14 | Yesterday 's clear-out removed the last of the hardliners from the politburo . |
| 15 | It was during this period that savage Turkish reprisals against Balkan nationalist movements gave the last of the sultans an unsavoury reputation for religious persecution which has coloured the writings of some western historians in their assessment of the whole record of the Ottoman empire . |
| 16 | Cinema-goers in the North East gave THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS a warm reception . |
| 17 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 18 | She had the last of the shirts pegged to the frame . |