Example sentences of "[pos pn] [num ord] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this was my hundredth phone call , I got some publicity in the local press and the dog was found . |
| 2 | Kapil said : ‘ When I got my 400th Test wicket in Perth last year I promised Sunny that one day both records would belong to Indians and I intend to honour that . |
| 3 | Ten days ago , I spent my 33rd birthday flat on my back , contemplating the inevitable decline towards decrepitude and death ( yup , it was a happy , happy day ) and wondering what my underlings would do to this column in my absence . |
| 4 | My second lunch place was on the fifth floor of a house in the same road as the school , the Via Farini . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd like it to be in memory of my second cousin Russell too , because he died from cystic fibrosis as well . ’ |
| 6 | The autumn of my second university year then . |
| 7 | I like yellow that 's my second favourite colour . |
| 8 | In my second year matters came to a head . |
| 9 | Fish told me ; ‘ The studios were completed last July and the recording of ‘ Internal Exile ’ , my second solo album , began in the same month . |
| 10 | My mother laughed at this , scornfully ; but in fact she gave us Christmas and birthday presents of clothes and shoes , and the record player came into the house in this way , as my eleventh birthday present . |
| 11 | Truthfully , I had n't believed in Heavenly Father since my fourth Christmas Eve night , the night when Auntie trod on my brick-truck as she tried to sneak in with my present — a smart Apollo Candy with stabilisers , hand-painted maroon — Pa being out with the Recovery . |
| 12 | I 'm doing the Bronte Heroes at school , for my Sixth Year Studies dissertation . |
| 13 | He says : ‘ I was stunned when I received my first royalty cheque . |
| 14 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 15 | On the hustings in my first election campaign in February 1974 , the casualty list among officers of my association consisted of one broken nose , two black eyes and the lady chairman drenched by a bucket of water , which the candidate had ducked . |
| 16 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 17 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
| 18 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 19 | My first simpliste proposition is this . |
| 20 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 21 | So was I. The expectant mother was sixteen years old and one of my students at the school in Barcelona where I was five months into my first teaching job . |
| 22 | For me , however , circumstances have changed somewhat since my first love affair with the States and my fascination has taken on a maturity that matches my years and experiences on the North American continent . |
| 23 | I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter . |
| 24 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 25 | Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years ! |
| 26 | In your letter dated Thu , 9 Dec 93 18:40:05 MET , you wrote : T was my first home game , Leeds vs Bradford one Wednesday evening , I can still remember the electric atmosphere at the ground . |
| 27 | My first solo flight |
| 28 | I have now had 20 lessons , and completed my first solo flight one evening at the beginning of March . |
| 29 | My effective vote could be my first preference vote , in which case all my other preferences are null and void . |
| 30 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |