Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The senator had beaten down my last defences , and now offered me a compromise that might make my surrender to his wishes more acceptable . |
| 2 | And I could hardly force down my fourth slice of toast and marmalade . |
| 3 | There was a staff of three Corporals , one Sergeant and the scarred Sergeant-Major who had interviewed me , all of whom were veterans of some twenty years ' service in the Legion , filling in their last years before retirement . |
| 4 | Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won . |
| 5 | The PLAYER tosses down his last coin by way of paying up , and turns away . |
| 6 | A framed photograph of Sarah , taken on her eighteenth birthday , was on the sideboard . |
| 7 | It held a head and shoulders snapshot of herself taken on her eighteenth birthday . |
| 8 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 9 | I hoped we could gloss over my first marriage as much as possible . ’ |
| 10 | My mind played over my first robbery . |
| 11 | ‘ You should have been there , ’ Howard tells his wife next morning , as they sit over their second cup of coffee on one of the upper terraces . |
| 12 | Our picture shows the Hunterston team puzzling over their next move at one of the checkpoints . |
| 13 | The greatest test of this season has yet to come , when they play an English side with a dented pride and one where many players have still to get over their last defeat by Scotland three years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ You know , ’ ruminates Shaun Ryder , frowning over his fifth pint , after a night of stilted soul-searching , six months of silence and a whole heap of rumours , ‘ it surprises me that people ever expected anything more from us . |
| 15 | He began to write his own verse whilst still quite young , shyly at first , correcting again and again as his ‘ second thoughts blushed over his first attempts ’ . |
| 16 | Such was his hurry to get into the clubhouse from the 18th green that he was almost bowling people over in his haste and later he admitted to feeling ‘ very down ’ , still trying to get over his first round of 76 when ‘ everything went wrong ’ . |
| 17 | And so Robert Titford , Master Mariner , took over his first command . |
| 18 | High flying Banbridge now playing with confidence took play deep into the CI half and a CI infringement allowed Wray to bring his tally to eleven points when he knocked over his fourth kick of the game . |
| 19 | However ferociously we ink over our first thoughts , history finds a way of reading them . |
| 20 | Who do you turn to when you take over your first pub with a busy passing trade and you really do not know how many staff to employ or in what capacity to employ them ? |
| 21 | Use this useless lull in your life to think through your next step or rectify a recent move . |
| 22 | He 'd been there to pick her up when she fell off her first pony ; he 'd taught her to fish and to know about dogs , and whatever mischief she and Francis got up to , he never told a tale . |
| 23 | Colour swam under her skin , and she moved further into the room and closed the door , feeling as she did so that she was cutting off her last line of retreat . |
| 24 | FUGAZI , the Washington DC hardcore four-piece , kick off their first UK tour in two years this week . |
| 25 | When Barry and Morna sent off their first £10 ActionAid sent back a personal file on Baindu , and her community , plus a photograph . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm tired of reading and hearing about bands who do nothing but slag off their first record , and blame the producer for not getting it right . |
| 27 | Some were already sprouting feathers and were busily preening the new growth , some were sleeping off their last feed of fish , while others were food-begging from every bird within reach . |
| 28 | Tomorrow 's international is Dwyer 's 51st as Australian coach , one for every year of his to date and he kicks off his second half-century seeking his 31st victory . |
| 29 | Seconds later , Hardy landed a stunning left to stagger Holmes again for another count before he finished off his third defence of his crown after two minutes 40 seconds of the round , with a barrage of punches that left referee Larry O'Connell delivering the full count . |
| 30 | Capsize drill rounded off our first day 's sailing . |