Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 2 | ‘ But why am I always the last to know ? ’ |
| 3 | This would make them respectively the first and fifth most popular tourist arractions in the world , with the ones in between being the three existing Disney theme parks . |
| 4 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 5 | If you happen to know your bride or bridegroom 's tastes you could say , ‘ I would like to read you just the first verse/first two lines/last two lines of one of one of Sharon 's favourite poems about the sea . |
| 6 | Trouble is , they 'll expect to see you here the next time they come . ’ |
| 7 | If the teacher criticised or even hit you then the last thing to do was complain at home because the certainty was you would be criticised or hit again . |
| 8 | Here we premultiply the first of Equations ( 10 ) by unc and the second by |
| 9 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 10 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 11 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 12 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 13 | Publicans were still the most important occupational group , holding between them almost a third ( 31.2 per cent ) of all shares . |
| 14 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 15 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 16 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 17 | If a weaving yarn is thick and slubby , consider weaving it only every third row . |
| 18 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |
| 19 | ‘ The conceit of the lad — and he only a second son ! |
| 20 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 21 | is , is it , is it just the second year that has erm , perhaps it not |
| 22 | Well that 's right , give it away the first part of the question |
| 23 | As soon as the men had taken it away the next morning , she re-entered the house , very cautiously to avoid Troy , but her husband had gone out very early and did not return . |
| 24 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 26 | So learning that a particular symbol on a computer keyboard , situated in a particular room , delivers a banana from a feeder , is really the same kind of mental activity as recognizing the shape of a banana plant in a forest and remembering where to find it again the next day . |
| 27 | Anyway , it was good fun , so we did it again the next year . |
| 28 | If I may just refer you sir to er my appendix which it actually the last page of your papers erm er if you see on it is actually page numbered thirty one and it 's paragraph thirteen thirty six at the very back of the papers . |
| 29 | ‘ Why could n't you say it quietly the first time ? |
| 30 | There , ours there the last few days in it , those two being fucking bad |