Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This afternoon I made what is perhaps my last visit to ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 2 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only my second day , ’ said Juliet , ‘ and I must dash . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm late for work and it 's only my second night . ’ |
| 5 | This is only my second season of fishing and I 'm learning all the time . |
| 6 | ‘ Our visit to Debbie this year was only my second time in Italy . ’ |
| 7 | I still ca n't buy cos it 's only my first time bloody round ! |
| 8 | I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament . |
| 9 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 10 | The senator had beaten down my last defences , and now offered me a compromise that might make my surrender to his wishes more acceptable . |
| 11 | And I could hardly force down my fourth slice of toast and marmalade . |
| 12 | I do n't know I do n't know how long income support 's going to be , I do n't know how long my next pay packet 's gon na be or what have you . |
| 13 | So my first act on Indian soil was to telex a friend at Weatherbys , the British racing bureaucrats , to get them to explain the facts of life to the Bombay Turf Club . |
| 14 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 15 | Perhaps her last remark was a bit sententious ? |
| 16 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 17 | The hiatus over the Maastricht Treaty caused by the Danish veto provides the leaders of Europe with perhaps their last chance to reject once and for all the notion of political integration . |
| 18 | North play four full internationals — Orrell 's Nigel Heslop , Bryan Barley of Wakefield , Kevin Simms of Liverpool St Helens and Steve Bainbridge from Newcastle Gosforth — while the Springboks field very much their second string but include lock Drikus Hattingh , certain to face England on Saturday . |
| 19 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 20 | This is only her second film — her first , Rue Cases Nègres , was a stunning portrait of life in the sugar plantations of her native Martinique ( and would have been hard to beat as NI 's Film of the Year for 1983 if we 'd chosen one then ) . |
| 21 | Well , it was only her second day . |
| 22 | Andrea Wallace did herself proud with the bronze medal and a personal best of 2–31–32 in the women 's race , only her second attempt after winning at Carpi . |
| 23 | Annika Sorenstam , the 22-year-old Swede who was playing in what was only her second LPGA event , finished as well placed as fourth — a performance which won her some $37,000 . |
| 24 | Andrea Wallace , one of Britain 's top cross-country athletes and a mother of two , running in only her second marathon , believes that if she is still there at 20 miles , she has a chance of gaining a medal . |
| 25 | McColgan , running only her second marathon , was always in control after pulling away from the pack inside the first five miles . |
| 26 | It was only her third visit in more than two decades of terrorist violence . |
| 27 | The non-fiction division yielded sales of £3.9m in only its second year of publishing , while the fiction division grew by 19% to produce £10.1m of sales . |
| 28 | MILLWALL Football Club , which is playing only its second season in the First Division in its 104-year history , is to obtain a Stock Exchange listing . |
| 29 | In only its third year of operating the three and a half mile branch between Bodmin General and Bodmin Parkway , the B & W has established itself as a major leisure attraction and is building a reputation as one of the more progressive preserved railways in the country . |
| 30 | In only its third year the UK Schools Mathematics Competition — based in this University — attracted 42,000 entries from 770 schools . |