Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should have been there , ’ Howard tells his wife next morning , as they sit over their second cup of coffee on one of the upper terraces . |
| 2 | FUGAZI , the Washington DC hardcore four-piece , kick off their first UK tour in two years this week . |
| 3 | With Willis having been injured in the semi-final , England had chosen to play an extra batsman , Larkins , and make up their fifth bowler by combining Gooch , Boycott and Larkins , and it proved ill-judged . |
| 4 | Large new pieces in that medium — including one gigantic rigid construction at Wooster Street — make up his first show at Gagosian ( until 12 June ) . |
| 5 | French warships anchored in Beirut bay and French troops set up their first encampment at Khalde , where Beirut international airport now stands — and where the US Marines were to establish their own doomed military headquarters 122 years later . |
| 6 | It was in the mid-1960s that you set up your first gallery . |
| 7 | You stutter out your first few words . |
| 8 | Finally , as our market dies — and all markets die eventually — we cut our costs and squeeze out our last profits . |
| 9 | However ferociously we ink over our first thoughts , history finds a way of reading them . |
| 10 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |
| 11 | Who do you turn to when you take over your first pub with a busy passing trade and you really do not know how many staff to employ or in what capacity to employ them ? |