Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For the second 45 minutes it was Chelsea who made the chances , with Boro keeper Steve Pears reacting well to keep them out . |
| 3 | The Communist International quite deliberately set out to create " sections " under its detailed control , which would be more easily disciplined than the Second International parties which in Lenin 's eyes had been too independent to act together on the outbreak of war . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For each of the first eight weeks there is a weekly plan that will touch on a different aspect of your diet . |
| 6 | So that you can try them yourself , Elizabeth Arden is giving away a week 's supply to the first 750 readers whose names are picked on 28 February . |
| 7 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
| 8 | Hopefully today we 'll get an answer because the first eleven samples it said that the conductivity up and down up and down |
| 9 | Mmmm … after the first fifty carcasses it becomes a joke . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After the first few incidents I began to suspect there was a pattern , so I tried to find it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After the first few sentences he became bewildered , agitated , thunder-struck . |
| 14 | Their troubled relationship with Prost notwithstanding , Honda 's successful assault on the bastions of Formula One is admirably chronicled by Christopher Hilton in Conquest of Formula One , although his somewhat hectoring style makes the first few pages something of a battle . |
| 15 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 18 | I imagine that this would be a good finger exercise for resting concert pianists — after the first few minutes my digits were dead ! |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | for those first few weeks we could n't keep our eyes off each other . |
| 21 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
| 22 | For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless . |
| 23 | For the first few weeks I was seldom off the toilet bowl myself . |
| 24 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 25 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 26 | He often reminisced about his contribution to the manufacture of sodamide , an essential reagent in the production of M & B 693 , making the first few batches himself using molten sodium and ammonia — an exciting reaction to control . |
| 27 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 28 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 29 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 30 | In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise . |