Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 2 | I had won my first major title . |
| 3 | It has also just won its second national training award . |
| 4 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 5 | CCG has won its first major contract with BT Marine Ltd to provide catering and housekeeping services on board the 4,750 ton support ship the MV Discovery . |
| 6 | CCG HAS won its first offshore contract with BP Exploration , a multi-million pound contract to provide quality hotel standard service for personnel involved in the hook-up of two platforms in the North Sea 's Bruce Field . |
| 7 | She felt like a government health warning , but the sheer pleasure of having won her first big race made up for it all . |
| 8 | The High Elves had won their first major victory . |
| 9 | Less than 48 hours after the world No.1 had lifted her third French Open title , doctors in Paris revealed that she picked up the injury towards the end of her quarter-final win over Jennifer Capriati . |
| 10 | IN THE closing years of the twentieth century , the wind-swept island of Foula , 20 miles west of the main Shetland group , has reported its first recorded case of vandalism . |
| 11 | Hartnell have designed their first bridal collection , prices start at ‘ 1,250 for a short dress and £1,950 for a long dress . |
| 12 | The duration of his restoration was deemed his 49th regnal year — in other words , the reign of Edward was ignored . |
| 13 | He had forgotten our first fleeting encounter . |
| 14 | Yet he appeared surprised to find in Kursk guberniia near the end of 1922 that even villages near to the Moscow railway line had received their last single copies some months earlier . |
| 15 | Britain 's largest company , British Telecommunications Plc , has posted its second annual consecutive drop in profits for the year ending March 31 due to hefty redundancy charges , but is cautiously optimistic that the worst may now be over . |
| 16 | Penny strode on , regretting the flush that had risen to her cheeks , wondering if she had received her second tentative approach that afternoon . |
| 17 | The hospice staff have now completed their first full week in their new home at Harewood House and received more donations of furniture and equipment , including a fridge from Mr and Mrs Haynes who have already donated a freezer . |
| 18 | He and the Italian had completed their third successive one-two for the Didcot-based team . |
| 19 | On the return journey , the Thornton Heath branch was covered and at Telford Avenue depôt , the party changed to another car and No. 1 had completed its last public journey in London , to be prepared for sale to Leeds . |
| 20 | Even Ivanovka , the only village not far from the Moscow railway line , had received its last single copy of a newspaper some months prior to Yakovlev 's visit . |
| 21 | The widow of publisher Robert Maxwell has given her first in-depth interview since leaving her home in England . |
| 22 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 23 | She was stiff and tense in every muscle but she had done her first good day 's work since the discovery of the murder . |
| 24 | The Carroll Group 's £3m refurbishment of Martin 's Building in Water Street , Liverpool , has secured its first major letting . |
| 25 | It was confirmed in September 1990 that Dounreay had secured its first new contract for reprocessing with the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt research reactor in Braunschweig to reprocess 39 spent fuel rods . |
| 26 | Steel purchase : British Steel has made its first major acquisition since privatisation , buying private group C Walker & Sons , of Blackburn , for £330m . |
| 27 | It devalued the coinage of the pediment and , by inference , cheapened those masterworks of the past in which the pediment has made its first noble appearance . |
| 28 | And Oxford United have made their next big cup game against Aston Villa at the Manor on Wednesday the twenty third of September all ticket … |
| 29 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 30 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |