Example sentences of "and the [num ord] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeking a name , John Fawcus opened a book and the first word that caught his eye was ‘ cryptic ’ So , as established institutions are apt to spring from casual beginnings , was born the club that has prospered peripatetically ever since . |
| 2 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 3 | It was past their supper time already , and the first question that arose was whether Jennifer should sit at table with them . |
| 4 | It is quite simple to add a piece of decoration to a stocking stitch garment and the first question that arises is , how much ? |
| 5 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 6 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ There are a lot of kids living under adverse conditions and the first thing that goes is their confidence . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind that the departments comprised a multitude of functions , and , at this point in the study , no detailed breakdown of these functions was available , two parallel exercises were considered necessary to progress the study , ie one concerned with clarifying roles and information needs , and the second exploring and quantifying the existing information base , as represented by the central and outposted filing systems . |
| 9 | Yes , and the second time that happened it swept across the standing walls there , and in the near end of the caldarium there was somebody standing by the wall . |
| 10 | and the last massacre that happened , which has never come out yet , will eventually have to come out , because there are soldiers now that are talking about it . |
| 11 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 12 | the date of departure and the next address if known . |
| 13 | And the next thing that happens is an E sound . |
| 14 | And the next thing that comes in is what you asked about , where are these points in inflection and these turning points ? |
| 15 | This led to the murder of a shop owner and the next thing that happened , was , Imamu found himself in court on trial for a murder he had not committed . |
| 16 | I want you to reach the beginning of Day 15 and the next weighing and measuring session without having faltered seriously . |