Example sentences of "[pron] [num ord] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
| 2 | My second trot sees the float dip sharply beneath the surface about two-thirds of the way down the swim . |
| 3 | Ignominiously , I was hustled out after my second question clutching my scrap of question paper . |
| 4 | My second question follows consultation with a number of people . |
| 5 | My second marriage collapsed in 1991 at the beginning of my last year of vocational training — and I still had dependants . |
| 6 | And McGrindle , very matter of fact though drunk as usual : I have sixteen children , seven by my first marriage , four by my second , my second wife had two of her own , that makes thirteen , and three from my third , sixteen , and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity . |
| 7 | Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was taking exams at the end of my second year studying architecture at Liverpool University . ’ |
| 9 | well , my second name goes sort of like erm |
| 10 | My second observation demonstrates the absurdity of the idea that our relationship was , to borrow the elegant formula adopted by one news comic , ‘ the perverted passion of two sex junkies who would do anything — even kill — for their fix ’ . |
| 11 | Just after the end of the Falklands conflict , my second husband died , suddenly and unexpectedly , almost forty years to the day after he had been wounded and taken prisoner at Tobruk while serving with the Royal Durban Light Infantry in the ill-fated 2nd South African Division . |
| 12 | My second husband had been born 6,000 miles away , but at his funeral service the coffin lay but a few feet from the church war memorial tablet bearing Leslie 's name . |
| 13 | If Bill 's leg went according to form he should be back in town for his first follow-up clinic when I started my second all-day shift with its row of free evenings . |
| 14 | That was my second all-day stretch . |
| 15 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 16 | After hours of roaming through booklists and library indices , I came across my second book named Hear The Children Calling by Clare Mcnally . |
| 17 | My fourth question concerns an extremely important matter — the practical nature of the tendering requirements , for instance , for computer facilities , estate surveying , legal and architectural services , medical advice and supplies . |
| 18 | But when my eighth birthday came I found it among my presents , with a little card from my father . ’ |
| 19 | My sixth question arises out of a conversation with Dr. John Watts , the rector of St. Kentigerns , Blackburn . |
| 20 | My sixth sense told me to stay here . |
| 21 | ‘ When I wanted to produce a special jumper to commemorate my 50th Test try , with the emblems of all the countries I 'd scored against , I was told I 'd have to pay royalties for using them . |
| 22 | The fun starts when you control a team and call all necessary plays , which in my first try resulted in my team performing worse than an infants rounders team against the superbowl winners . |
| 23 | He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track . |
| 24 | This was my first opportunity to find out what progress you ‘ d made . ’ |
| 25 | So I spent my first year developing that , translating it into a job description for me an my colleagues , structuring plans for the health boards and therefore job descriptions for general managers — it was a cascade — to help people in their everyday jobs , involving examining what proportions of the organisation were crucial , not just to the people within them , but to those using them . ’ |
| 26 | However , credit must also be given to Saya Yá2wshu ( Saya means teacher ) , the seconded catechist , who for my first year followed me like a shadow , to enlarge my vocabulary and lengthen my conversations and sermons . |
| 27 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 28 | The job began to take over my life , and my first marriage ended in divorce . |
| 29 | ‘ He was also seen by one of my first cousins walking up and down the corridor . |
| 30 | ‘ My first wife died some years ago , as you may know . |