Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends drove him away to his first night of freedom in twenty months . |
| 2 | Anyway , James Brown — who ‘ poached ’ me from Sounds to procure information on ‘ rock ’ music , an alien genre to NME staff flourishing on a staple diet of Ecstasy and Ribena in the halcyon daze of ‘ indie dance ’ in 1990 — ordered me out on my first ‘ job ’ to interview Page Three ‘ model ’ Maria Whittaker , whose debut single had stormed the UK Charts at Number 138 … with Kevin Cummins … |
| 3 | He seemed to know so much about fighting that I was very surprised when I knocked him down with my first hit , and then again with my second . |
| 4 | ‘ I worked it out during my second week here . |
| 5 | But something , some sharper , unaccustomed sound , brought me out of my first deep sleep into listening wakefulness . |
| 6 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 7 | The converted midfield player marked his 25th birthday with the 51st-minute opener and Robert Lee rubbed it in with his first League goal for Newcastle six minutes later after Peacock 's penalty had been beaten out by Perry Suckling . |
| 8 | Robert Lee rubbed it in with his first League goal for Newcastle six minutes later after Peacock 's penalty had been beaten out by Perry Suckling . |
| 9 | Robert 's own Christian name , as we know , had come from his maternal grandfather , Robert Hasted , and he passed it on to his second child , Robert Edward ; thereafter the same name would continue in that branch of the family until well into the 20th century . |
| 10 | IRENE Aldis , who lost her wedding ring in 1932 , got it back for her 102nd birthday after it was found in a field at Honingham , Norfolk . |
| 11 | David escorted her there on her first morning and was touchingly concerned for her , insisting on taking a cushion for her to soften the hard seat on the press benches and urging her to promise to leave the stuffy , dark-panelled room if she felt faint or troubled . |
| 12 | Adrian , our Long Mynd Coaches driver , conveyed us smoothly to our first stop at the National Tram Museum , Crich . |