Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 THANK God someone has at last written an article attacking the proposed closure of St Bartholomew 's Hospital .
2 I WAS glad to see that someone has at last taken a stand on the cheap labour schemes connected with the TEC system .
3 Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold .
4 She would call softly , " Robby , Robby , " Nothing happened at first , But then , A rose bush Sprang to life As her robin , Wings vibrating .
5 Nothing happened at first .
6 Nothing to do with last night .
7 TROUBLED morning television station GMTV finally had something to smile about last night when it was revealed it gained an extra million viewers over the last two weeks .
8 In learning a task , how to ride a bicycle , for example , one attends at first to every muscular movement .
9 Primarily he will offer a steadying hand to the back four , and organise them … something lacking from last season .
10 ‘ Or is this something to do with last Saturday ? ’
11 They expect a loved one to understand without first being told ; perfect , intuitive empathy is anticipated .
12 Talking of pick me ups : Oxford United have got one coming at last .
13 Since I am not one to judge on first impressions I stepped tentatively inside .
14 Everything looked at first glance the same .
15 Two percentages are shown in each case : one relates to first responses to the question ‘ Do you like … ? ’ and the other to all responses .
16 And the electricity board come , no one come until next week !
17 Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed .
18 The train was going to be late and there was nothing left in first class .
19 The Damages ( Scotland ) Act covers the cases of anyone dying since last July , when the bill was first raised by the Labour peer Lord Macaulay of Bragar in the House of Lords .
20 And he has some other advice , particularly for anyone travelling to third world countries — never drink local water , use bottled water instead and make sure the bottle 's seal is intact .
21 The most important lesson to be learnt from the fossil discoveries of the 1840s and 1850s was that the history of life was far more complex than anyone had at first realized .
22 P. To start with it was the ‘ glamorous lifestyle ’ , cruising around in T-shirt and shorts , like everyone does at first .
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