Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 2 | ‘ Major Bagshot accompanied Bonzo to the 15th green where he found a ball and a complete set of Henry Cotton ‘ St Andrew 's ’ clubs lying , abandoned . |
| 3 | The second part once we know what people need to know we now need to think about putting together some training which actually satisfies that particular need . |
| 4 | The conflict develops in the second part where it reaches a climax : in Giselle a death , in Romeo and Juliet several deaths . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Boswell enlightened his readers regarding ‘ The thickness of the walls , the small slaunting windows , and a great iron door at the entrance to the second story as you ascend the stairs , all indicate the rude times in which this castle was erected . ’ |
| 6 | The hope among many is that Lamont , or as looks increasingly unlikely , his successor , will be able to pull back from the second rise when he comes to the December 1994 Budget . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's too bad , Claudia , because I 'm going to be your second skin until you lead me to Garry . ’ |
| 8 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
| 9 | took over at the top of the second division after they Cleveland 2–0 with a goal in each half by Colin Howey . |
| 10 | Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year . |
| 11 | The move takes Totten , who will be part-time with the Methil club , back to the Second Division where he originally found the Perth club . |
| 12 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 13 | Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty , changing into second gear as she rounded a bend . |
| 14 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 15 | Well no , we got two in the sidelines , we got this Indian guy who was not coming for a second interview until we can say we 'll pay him |
| 16 | They protect themselves from too much probing and they appear very secretive in nature but can take ice-cold decisions without a second glance if it suits their purpose . |
| 17 | The collection is certainly an asset to any University , and many will now give the walls a second glance as they rush on to lectures and seminars . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , virtue alone is not enough ; possibly Carter would have been more successful and might have won a second term if he had been less intense , more flexible , less immersed in the detail of government and a little more willing to dissemble occasionally . |
| 19 | If your garment size requires that you have a number of stitches that give a half repeat , you might consider moving the N1 cam between the first and second piece as we discussed earlier , so that when seamed ‘ A ’ will be joined to ‘ B ’ at the side seam . |
| 20 | The effects of Esther 's stroke were not obvious at first , which made the doctors wonder if she had suffered a second stroke when they found later that she had a very severe left hemiplegia . |
| 21 | A method similar to that described above is still probably the most suitable for producing concave trunk mouldings for long-case clocks mentioned in Mr Robey 's second question although they may not be so easily manipulated over the saw bench , particularly if they are stop-ended as the ends may present problems . |
| 22 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 23 | It is thought one pin may have failed on the El Al flight , causing an engine to tear free of its mountings and hit the second engine as it fell . |
| 24 | They , they played a lot better second half than they did first apparently |
| 25 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 26 | Millmead battled away and did the best they could , but their cause was blighted further during the second half when they were reduced to eight men due to injury . |
| 27 | And in the second half when we always make the bulk of our profits , we fought back and our second pre-tax er , er performance , exceeded by some five million er , that of nineteen ninety . |
| 28 | In the second half when we went at them we forced plenty of corners but could make nothing of them . |
| 29 | ‘ I am very proud of what he and the rest of the team did in the second half when we were down to ten men , ’ said Smith . |
| 30 | But Teddy Sheringham levelled in the second half when he converted a Gary Mabbutt flick-on . |