Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years .
2 He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half .
3 Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years .
4 ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’
5 Only two of their candidates have even made it through to the second round .
6 finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup …
7 They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place .
8 They would only have had you in as a last resort . ’
9 Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year
10 And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it .
11 Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ?
12 They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours .
13 Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor .
14 By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine .
15 That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’
16 The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class .
17 This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways .
18 He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long .
19 I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home .
20 It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place .
21 His followers at the Yorkshire track have raked it in over the last five years with a 1 level stake on all his mounts showing more than 45 to the good .
22 I 'd worked it out to the last breath .
23 ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it .
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