Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change . |
| 2 | ( If it upset you the first time , please move on to the next paragraph . ) |
| 3 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 4 | Give me a nineteenth nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 5 | Give me a first name that begins with R and ends in an H. |
| 6 | Well once you 've got the first , give me the first one which did n't come out and then it 's easy . |
| 7 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |
| 8 | This would help to ensure that you have mastered its main ideas on this crucial topic , and give you a first taste of the strategy in practice . |
| 9 | ‘ I give you a third of the buy-price of the Degas . ’ |
| 10 | Win the new Renault Clio We unveil a fantastic new six-part competition to win one of this year 's most exciting models , and give you the first plant posers that lead the way to £9,180-worth of gleaming new car ! |
| 11 | I give you the next one ! ’ |
| 12 | A magic fairy that would whisk her away from all this , she thought , who could turn the clock back and give her a second chance — a more dignified entrance perhaps , a way of showing this arrogant rat just what she thought of him . |
| 13 | No she bought a second lo a second twenty lot of twenty and I give her the first lot back probably . |
| 14 | Give him the first half , and see what he would do . |
| 15 | As a matter of fact I usually just give him the first line or two and leave him to get on with it . |
| 16 | During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday . |
| 17 | You 're always give him the last sweet to him ! |
| 18 | ‘ Tell me the next scene . |
| 19 | Who can put their hand up and tell me the next number ? |
| 20 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 21 | Each stage of the operation is recorded on a tape machine and each operator reports the end of each stage to that machine and the machine will — providing all the agents on that scheme have also reported in — tell you the next stage . ’ |
| 22 | when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all |
| 23 | If you then get it a second time you will then possibly have an allergic reaction to the horse serum . |
| 24 | This is often confused with a lot of idealistic nonsense about the inevitability of progress , often coupled with ignorant nonsense about evolution " violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics " ( those that belong to the half of the educated population that , according to the novelist C. P. Snow , know what the Second Law is , will realize that it is no more violated by evolution than it is violated by the growth of a baby ) . |
| 25 | We always know what the next step in our lives should be — which area of our lives needs to be resolved or changed — and we need to find the courage and self-love to start moving . |
| 26 | You know what the next level up is after megabyte . |
| 27 | And , having watched the recent coal fiasco , we all know what the next step is once an unwanted raw material has been identified ; you stop its production . |
| 28 | Whatever time I ran him back , there was always a smiling , cheerful member of staff to greet him , strap him into the stair lift , help him to undress if necessary and even bring him a last cup of tea if he felt like one . |
| 29 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 30 | Well ask him the next time you see him . |