Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 2 | A female , instead of manufacturing the maximum number of eggs that can be created from her bodily reserves , may produce rather fewer but give each one a better chance of survival by supplying it with food in some way , so that it is sustained during its first difficult days . |
| 3 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 4 | But it was a harsh result for Queens Park Rangers who , despite all their possession and smart passing , finished the game with 10 men when defender Alan McDonald was dismissed for his second bookable offence . |
| 5 | Lowe restored the three-goal balance before Calderwood was dismissed for his second bookable offence and Craig Maskell fired in Swindon 's 80th-minute consolation goal . |
| 6 | The influence of Pater — which lies beneath Edward 's undergraduate article on the ‘ Frontiers of English Prose ’ with its carefully argued refusal to draw distinctions between prose and poetry — developed during his first non-collegiate year at Oxford . |
| 7 | With sufficient work completed for her first show , Vanessa had exhausted her theme and recovered her interest in the living . |
| 8 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 9 | The experience which Anderson gained while working directly for the newly independent governments of Africa made him uniquely well placed for his second career , in the field of development co-operation . |
| 10 | His graphic story has just been published in the Darlington Postgraduate Journal , edited by doctors at Darlington Memorial Hospital where he was treated after his second stroke . |
| 11 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 12 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 13 | ITALY 'S La Scala opera house threatened yesterday to take ‘ extreme ’ action against rowdy Milan audiences after Luciano Pavarotti , left , was heckled during his first performance there in five years . |
| 14 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 15 | From a medical viewpoint , a woman is considered during her first pregnancy as a primigravida and , during her subsequent pregnancies , as a multigravida . |
| 16 | Feasting her eyes on him as he quickly enclosed his nether limbs , Gina was forcibly reminded of their first meeting . |
| 17 | We have been constantly reminded of our 25th anniversary by the Official Opening Ceremony on Saturday 29th August , the Service of Thanksgiving in the Church of the Holy Rude , the Logie Kirk Commemoration of the University Mace , a prestigious series of public lectures , concerts , exhibitions , parties of all kinds and , yet to come , the Silver Jubilee Graduation Ball in early July . |
| 18 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 19 | COMECON : The nine-member Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) was formally dissolved following its 46th session in Budapest on June 28 ; a liquidation committee was given 90 days to oversee the organization 's dissolution . |
| 20 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 21 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 22 | She heard the sharp intake of breath ; what little patience he possessed had clearly vanished with her last smart remark . |
| 23 | Jackman had Greenidge caught with his fifth ball in Test cricket , and shortly before lunch the fourth wicket went down for 65 . |
| 24 | Only 2 points have come from their last 4 league games , but they want revenge for last season 's 5-3 defeat at the Manor . |
| 25 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 26 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 27 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 28 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 29 | A letter explained that it was the pictures Simon had owned before his second marriage and which by rights belonged now to his daughter . |
| 30 | In a surprise result , Burundians voted in their first democratic election since 1962 to boot out their military president , Pierre Buyoya , in favour of a banker , Melchior Ndadaye . |