Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] be [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 2 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 3 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 4 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 5 | ‘ When at Fort Desire , in Patagonia ( lat 48 ’ ) , Mr Martens shot an ostrich ; and I looked at it , forgetting at the moment , in the most unaccountable manner , the whole subject of the petise , and thought it was a two-third grown one of the common sort . |
| 6 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Erm , there 's a perfect example in Appendix Three , in and Planning It 's the second page of of Appendix Three , and to read through it , and I wo n't read it , because obviously everybody has done . |