Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 2 | I just last night falling in the bed just |
| 3 | I again last month wrote to Mr to try a promote a drug free competition for a Sunday giving various dates of nineteen ninety two and have yet to hear . |
| 4 | When I went to the antenatal clinic for my very first check-up , this elderly doctor burst through the door , looked at me and said , " You should n't be having this baby , you should be giving it away to somebody less fortunate . " |
| 5 | I 'm pleased to be able to answer my very first oral question . |
| 6 | When I was forty I suffered from my very first migraine , I was in bed for five days with it . |
| 7 | Whilst flying back from visiting relatives in Denmark on my very first trip abroad , the second worst nightmare happened . |
| 8 | I never thought I 'd be saying this but I 'm now the proud owner of my very first home . |
| 9 | My very first race was at the White City Stadium . |
| 10 | I made my very first TV appearance at 12 in a six-part series on Alexander Graham Bell with Alec McCowen , Francesca Annis and Judy Geeson . |
| 11 | My very first act — since one has to begin somewhere — was to decide upon the form in which I would report to you . |
| 12 | Fate decreed therefore that my very first exposure to this unlikely world was as interpreter for the British representative ( a pleasant dairy farmer used to having a hundred cows he knew by name ) at the milk pasteurization subcommittee of the Central Agricultural Control . |
| 13 | Not only did my mother regularly quote them , but on joining my public school for my very first term , the house I was in was actually punished for slack behaviour the previous term — when I had not even been at the school ! |
| 14 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 15 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 16 | ‘ And I — It is my very first visit … ’ |
| 17 | When I had finished at 10pm , I joined Steven Wells and Dele Fadele at my very first lig . |
| 18 | I AM writing this foreword to the 1993 Year Book on my very first evening in the diocese after the announcement of my appointment yesterday . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd lay my very last penny on it , ’ she told him . |
| 20 | It 's dreadfully silly , I know , but I 'm afraid I 've left my matches behind and this is my very last cigarette . " |
| 21 | He wasted no time ; his very first question was about Cecil King . |
| 22 | This is his very first school visit as secretary of state , but St Edmunds primary are n't claiming any honours . |
| 23 | And the next night the backdrop was ‘ A Night in Spain ’ , and there was Stella II , it was his very first night , all done up in black and gold lace with an underskirt of violent red , a red Elizabeth the First wig for some reason and a real red rose , it was sensational , and it was his first night too , Stella II doing ‘ Te Amo ’ till the tears ran down his face . |
| 24 | In fact his very first answer put the concept in an entirely new light for me . |
| 25 | Mansell is off to America , so this could be his very last drive in formula one . |
| 26 | Put them elsewhere next year and make sure they have plenty of organic matter to draw on . |
| 27 | For example , I take on mobility and activities , somebody else is doing incontinence , somebody else first aid , somebody else mental health . |
| 28 | Now there 's somebody else next door selling off , se se there is a surplus |
| 29 | The Company , from its very first voyage , exported bullion rather than English products and , when economists complained that this would lead to a loss of bullion which would cause deflation and depression in England , the Company replied that it exported between 50 and 90 per cent of its pepper to countries in northern Europe which paid four or five times as much silver as the Company paid in India , so that on balance its activities substantially increased the amount of bullion in the country . |
| 30 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |