Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him .
2 I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help .
3 ‘ I 'm certainly not in 2:12 shape at the moment but I 'll be disappointed if I ca n't improve on my 2:23 from last year .
4 The version here is his next to last , and although inimitable in a way , it is not quite so feather-light and magical as some of the other accounts .
5 Shreeves ' side have another day 's advantage on the other British teams involved in Europe as they do n't meet Porto in their second round second leg tie until Thursday night .
6 Part of England 's concern is that Gooch has already declared himself unavailable for next winter 's tour of West Indies .
7 The 35-year-old St Helens pack star has declared himself available for next month 's World Cup Final against the Aussies .
8 The Western Region , envious of the success of the London Midland Region Radio Land Cruise Trains , introduced their own on 29th June 1£954 which worked in the opposite direction to the L.M. Region turns .
9 In green houses all over the country prize blooms are being brought on to be at their best for next week 's Chelsea Flower Show .
10 Wales saved their best till last as they rounded off their six match African tour with a brilliant eight-try 56–17 victory over the South African Barbarians .
11 Senior officials of the African National Congress have been urging Mr Mandela to announce an official separation from his wife since her latest outburst in which she allegedly threatened and waved a pistol at Mrs Xoliswa Falati , her co-accused in last year 's trial for kidnap and assault .
12 I Are you likely through next this coming year set up
13 Sometimes you gallop them se if you do n't get them all in first lot , it all depends on the jockeys , if you get the jockeys or not .
14 But they 're having to withdraw them all by next week because of a change in European safety regulations .
15 ‘ Why , Mahmoud , have you done something sensible at last and joined the river police ? ’
16 Examples of the latter — attaching new connotations — would be the way musical elements of the bourgeois march were made to connote something different in nineteenth century labour anthems ; or the way the supposedly liberated individualist eclecticism of counter cultural 1960s rock — ‘ liberated ’ in the Marcusian sense — was , in a process of recuperation , re-articulated to the long tradition of bourgeois individual bohemianism .
17 Something spiritual at last !
18 ‘ There are exciting days ahead as the two-year-old classic races loom in the next few months and we could have something hot for next season . ’
19 Along may come a sudden additional stress , the last straw on the camel 's back , as it were , which could be a disappointment in job prospects or even redundancy , bereavement , a fight with a colleague , or something nasty in last night 's curry , and the balance breaks down and illness supervenes .
20 Gran usually made tea at ten o'clock , when the evening meal was cleared away and everything ready for next morning 's breakfasts .
21 Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach .
22 To the employers , the entry of women made it possible at last to nibble away at — or do away with — such " restrictive practices " .
23 Jones also confirmed that reserve skipper Tim Carter yet another Wearsider on the list will be fined after his sending-off in last week 's draw with Sheffield Wednesday .
24 Yet despite his victories , Torrance is not eligible to play in the US Open next week , nor is he exempt for next month 's British Open at Sandwich .
25 So what is it did you used to have more f er was it okay at first I mean you used to have quite a few friends when you first move in ?
26 The babies ’ parents were rather dubious about it all at first , ’ Claire admits .
27 The carer may find it repugnant at first to think of helping the patient with this basic human function .
28 New friendship does not come easy to me , I feel compelled to play it rough at first — your idealism , for example , I had to find out whether it was capable of standing up ; testing and teasing , for me , are a kind of initiation —
29 In order to restrict the circulation of information memoranda , we require recipients of the memorandum to supply us with a letter confirming that they will treat the information contained therein as strictly private and confidential and will not disclose or otherwise make it available to third party .
30 By the time Oldfield and his bride-to-be at last arrived , Joan and Richard had fallen to speculating which of the marriages would end in divorce .
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