Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the [noun sg] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 2 | Senior members of both firms refused to confirm or deny the story last night . |
| 3 | Lendl , who won his third successive Open title in 1987 , retired against Australian qualifier Neil Borwick while trailing 4-6 6-4 3-1 and became the record fifth men 's seed to lose in the first round this year . |
| 4 | The secretary did as instructed and passed the test first time . |
| 5 | and got the cup last year . |
| 6 | CATHERINE Mind and ring the bell next time ! |
| 7 | Rival Cyndi Lauper stepped in to sing a duet for a Christmas album and recorded the track first time with no rehearsal . |
| 8 | Ampofo , 25 , won and lost the title last year . |
| 9 | He slotted himself in behind the steering-wheel , and started the car first time . |
| 10 | If the Conservatives continued in power , because her GP belongs to a fund-holding practice — a superb Tory system , he insisted — there would be no problem ; he could put her on the waiting list and do the operation next autumn . |
| 11 | Ariana 's board includes Bernard Giroud who started Intel France in 1971 and left the company last year a corporate vice president to become a venture capitalist , Gerard Yon , formerly sales and marketing manager of Chorus Systemes , the microkernel house , and now president of VST , a French start-up in electronic document management , and Pascal LeVasseur , technical director of Dell France . |
| 12 | A tiny tree has little effect on your light and makes the garden next door look nicer . |