Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the gurus argued , this slump had produced the first fall in house prices since the early 1950s . |
| 2 | The government is this lunchtime expected to announce the third wave of Scottish hospitals to be given self governing status . |
| 3 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 4 | After about ten minutes — several riderless horses had skipped over the line by now , and another contender had cleared the last jump , and was gaining — Bumboy was finally scourged out of a series of circles and flopped over the line , home by half a length . |
| 5 | Then an orange light flares in front of them , and I know some joker has thrown the first Molotov . |
| 6 | There were two jangling mistakes from Horner giving away early penalty points to Soutter , and after only 11 minutes the former champion had pocketed the first game with a good backhand drop from a short ball . |
| 7 | Although rain ruled out any real chance of a positive result on the last day the Leewards batsmen never batted with enough urgency having established a first innings lead . |
| 8 | His mind was n't up to speaking one line while listening to another , and at the same time trying to remember the next move . |