Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's a nice letter at last about the second this year I think which is n't bad going ! |
| 2 | During the second six months he can , and may get a little work ; but until at least a year after the end of pupillage he will probably have to live on his parents or spouse . |
| 3 | For the second 45 minutes it was Chelsea who made the chances , with Boro keeper Steve Pears reacting well to keep them out . |
| 4 | The second left hander I would bring in is a chap who scored a century against Australia in the Old Trafford Test in 1989 . |
| 5 | The second critical comment I came across in the Scrapbook was George Steiner 's statement from the Sunday Times in 1967 . |
| 6 | The second small point I just wish to reemphasize was er coming from what the House Builders Federation said earlier about the house builders being the people who are looking after the interests os North Yorkshire locals . |
| 7 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 8 | The second general point I want to make is that there is no single right way to use this thing . |
| 9 | Searchlights combed the skies as I switched London over to the new system and said , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , this is the second biggest turn-on I 've had all week — the first was undoubtedly my precarious position up here with Mr Aspel . ’ |
| 10 | And since a car is probably the second biggest investment you 'll ever make — buying a stolen one could cost you a lot of money ! |
| 11 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 12 | He led a field of seven candidates in an inconclusive first round , and in the second round run-off he defeated Oleg Lobov , currently the second secretary of the Armenian CP and regarded as a pro-Gorbachev reformer . |
| 13 | So what I want to suggest is that the second two categories I 've mentioned , that 's the vocal channel and the body language channel can actually be very important in communication . |
| 14 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 15 | For the fourth successive year they have won the South Yorkshire Area Institute of Bankers pop quiz — and thus remain the only winner of the competition since it was launched in 1990 . |
| 16 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
| 17 | You 're the first non-Jewish girl I 've ever said more than ‘ Nice day ’ to . |
| 18 | The blind man nodded , spoke up against the weary roar of the airstream that broke like surf on this rocky spur deep in Antarctic Mars , and in his voice was a smile , the first emotional response he 'd given them . |
| 19 | Hopefully today we 'll get an answer because the first eleven samples it said that the conductivity up and down up and down |
| 20 | Mmmm … after the first fifty carcasses it becomes a joke . |
| 21 | Almost the first political article I had published was one called ‘ The Goldfish Bowl Mentality ’ . |
| 22 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
| 23 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |
| 24 | After the first few incidents I began to suspect there was a pattern , so I tried to find it . |
| 25 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 26 | After the first few sentences he became bewildered , agitated , thunder-struck . |
| 27 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 28 | The first few times you go it 's interesting and exciting as anything new is , but eventually it 's hot and dusty and really quite boring . |
| 29 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 30 | HO Circular ( 194/78 ) describing British and American research literature on policing is another typically apologetic , anti-intellectual document , for within its first few paragraphs it admits : |