Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is another option which , strangely , has not been debated — something rather more flexible that would be worth trying first . |
| 2 | Both of them are ‘ such knowledge of effects or appearances , as we acquire by true ratiocination from the knowledge we have first of their causes or generations : And again , of such causes or generations as may be from knowing first their effects . ’ |
| 3 | And , and he said I , because , because when they were talking Joan , I mean , like Margaret said , it 's worth thinking first before you open your mouth |
| 4 | Her husband 's from working next door , of all places to co to come ! |
| 5 | The other medal was for coming second in a canoe race . |
| 6 | I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it . |
| 7 | A COMMUNITY was in mourning last night after a young cyclist was killed as he rode through his home town . |
| 8 | THE Bishop of Gloucester was in hiding last night after police quizzed him about alleged indecent behaviour towards a novice monk . |