Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Otherwise they 're going to have another sleepless night , and we need them fresh for the next stage . ’
2 Let her go to her grave imagining me defiant to the last .
3 But Jackman had the strokes and strength to respond to the challenge and her counter-offensive in the fourth game swung the balance back .
4 It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time .
5 He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years .
6 He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then .
7 The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place .
8 I thought we were lovers ! she wanted to scream , but she swallowed her hurt for the thousandth time and forced a smile .
9 He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others .
10 To discourage petty claims , most insurers make you liable for the first £25 .
11 ‘ But they won through in a dour encounter and I wish them well in the next round .
12 I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one .
13 Quote of the Buxton Conference came from American Paul Piana , whose audio-visual about the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap proved to be a masterpiece of comedy .
14 He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience .
15 Lindemann , who was third in the 1989 World Cup Final , also has Abound qualified here , and rode this one clear in the first warm-up , and then withdrew him .
16 ‘ If we do n't see something sensible in the next 24 hours then there is no point in carrying on , ’ he said .
17 The other was the knowledge , inexplicable and certain , like all knowledge in dreams , that he would find something deadly inside the last box .
18 Over the next few years leading up to the 1995 World Cup there 'll be plenty of time to slot in replacements as they are needed — particularly to the front-five where Jason Leonard will probably be the only one available for the next tournament .
19 Dorothy 's Journals provide a record of the tour , which involved the use of a vehicle described as ‘ an Irish jaunting car ’ ; they made a pilgrimage to the grave of Burns and visited Sir Walter Scott , whose Lay of the Last Minstrel was to introduce the new metre of Christabel to a public who had never heard of the source .
20 Unless they can say something relevant in the next four days , the many Hong Kong critics who believe the visit is a waste of dollars will be absolutely right .
21 USL hopes to have something ready by the first quarter of next year .
22 That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want .
23 After 300 years of Portuguese rule , Brazil declared herself independent on the 7th September 1822 , with her own monarch , the Portuguese Prince Regent , Dom Pedroh I. In 1899 , a year after the abolition of slavery in Brazil , a further step was taken to form a federal republic , the United States of Brazil .
24 The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place .
25 She first tuned into Hendry when he was sweeping all before him en-route to a second Embassy world title last April .
26 However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place .
27 This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides .
28 The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems .
29 Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level .
30 The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information .
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