Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total . |
| 2 | I then started to put my foot to get the next rung down . |
| 3 | well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third |
| 4 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 5 | My constituency has the second highest unemployment in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 7 | As my breath scratches the last scribbles , and I write |
| 8 | well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third |
| 9 | So ended — for the moment — my quest to solve the last enigma . |
| 10 | well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third |
| 11 | My third point is coming back to Chairman your point about the paragraph , the criterion paragraph of thirty three of P P G three , and the settlement in my view fails the first the first test , since the very city which it is supposed to relieve says that the need can be met , and I quote , within and on the edge of the urban area and villages . |
| 12 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 13 | Motorola Inc has put Intel Corp on the spot with its decision to price the first iterations of the PowerPC chip at $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 or more , since these are about half the prices Intel had pencilled in for its Pentium chips ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 14 | This latter issue was also cited by the Japanese government as the reason for its decision to postpone the eighth round of normalization talks with North Korea , originally scheduled for July . |
| 15 | Their presence provoked the first violent incidents , when on Oct. 31 some 3,000 People 's Front volunteers seized two checkpoints on the USSR-Romania border and threatened to kill the border guards and their families if the troops were not withdrawn . |
| 16 | In 1961 , which driver won the first grand prix he entered ? |
| 17 | Lord Lae declared that ‘ oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband ’ ; and millionaire QCs , who think legal aid is something once organised by Bob Geldof , spoke movingly about their willingness to take the next indigent client who wandered into their chambers with a blank cheque . |
| 18 | In another action , the speed marchers stretched their stride to cover the last 6 of 20 desert miles after a sharp night action . |
| 19 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 20 | Merrill bit her lip , fingering the envelope in her handbag containing the last of Elise 's unpaid bills — for an elm chest , a beautiful piece of furniture bearing Woodline Design 's distinctive label . |
| 21 | You might also consider whether they ought to continue with their attempt to run a second restaurant at all . |
| 22 | South Tees Community and Mental Health Care launches its bid to become a third wave NHS trust next Tuesday . |
| 23 | Churchill favoured having just sufficient troops to make it impossible for the USSR to attack without the need to make such large preparations that its intention to start the Third World War would be self-evident . |
| 24 | An Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Jan. 12 that the French government had declared its intention to become the first western government to reopen its embassy in Kabul . |
| 25 | After being cook on the last Whitbread she announced her intention to enter the next Whitbread in her own yacht , with an all women crew . |
| 26 | Although the Democrats increased their share of the vote , the party 's leader Janine Haines failed in her bid to become the first candidate from a minor party since 1966 to win a seat in the 148-seat House of Representatives . |
| 27 | GERMANY , another side to have ‘ employed ’ the technical know-how of a foreigner ( Emil Signes , the former coach and current manager of the US Eagles sevens side ) were equally unsuccessful in their bid to reach the last four . |
| 28 | SOUTH AFRICA have withdrawn their bid to stage the next cricket World Cup , said Ali Bacher , managing director of the United Cricket Board of South Africa today . |
| 29 | The bad weather has also forced Rebecca Stephens to delay her attempt to become the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 30 | Finally , when the stream dried up to a dribble , she popped the man 's wet dick in her mouth to savour the last few drops . |