Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [noun] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several decades of charting children 's vocabulary growth in the first half of the twentieth century , researchers began to focus on children 's acquisition of grammar-the rules for combining words into the sequences permissible in a language like English , e.g. , the big boy but not *the boy big , He brought the book , but not *He brought . |
| 2 | New Bradwell and Stantonbury 's water supply in the first instance was from individual or shared wells . |
| 3 | Mrs Tibbs 's boarding house in the first of the tales is characteristic , although it is not Dickens at his later best : |
| 4 | Aston Villa , with eight wins from their previous nine League matches , managed to nudge Liverpool 's writing arm in the first half every time a cogent word or telling flourish was about to be penned . |
| 5 | Britain 's trade gap in the first six months of this year was £6 billion — nearly the total Chancellor Lamont had predicted for the whole year back in March . |