Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ambulance gave him his last race to Paso Robles Hospital . |
| 2 | It was widely recognised as an important landmark and NME readers voted it their fourth best album of 1987 . |
| 3 | His new wife Fatmawati gave him his first son , Guntur , whose name means ‘ thunder ’ . |
| 4 | Determination , aggression and commitment have all been missing from their recent displays , but a lack of concentration denied them their first much-needed double of the season . |
| 5 | However , the run earned me my first individual outdoor international selection for a match against Finland at Lappeenranta . |
| 6 | Having beaten the Royal Navy , who then defeated the RAF , the Army needed only a draw to give them their 29th outright title , but they seldom generated the cohesion necessary to trouble what was a disciplined RAF team . |
| 7 | The waiter served them their next course , and neither of them spoke until he was gone . |
| 8 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 9 | His old course and his new job gave him his first academic publication : a grammar of the Albanian language . |
| 10 | When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes . |
| 11 | On Wednesday morning of the second week Captain Trentham gave them their first lecture on the history of the Royal Fusiliers . |
| 12 | In the big retail market which opens later on the combined scents of ripe peaches and the fresh basil and thyme plants lying in heaps on the ground gave us our first sniff of Provence . |
| 13 | Clinton made it his first post-victory order of business to send messages of reassurance both to the world at large and to the financial and business communities . |
| 14 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 15 | There is a new John Trenhaile , The Tiger of Desire ( HarperCollins ) ; David Gemmell has Waylander II ( Legend ) ; Inadmissible Evidence ( Headline ) is another courtroom drama from the author of Reasonable Doubt , Philip Friedman ; the writing duo of Laura Gilmour Bennett give us their last one together in Distant Echoes ( Penguin ) ; Hodder is keen on a gentle tale about organic horticulture in Rosemary Enright 's The Walled Garden ( Coronet ) ; Pan is building Graham Hurley , who has a Gulf War thriller in The Devil 's Breath ; and Orion is keen on Edmund McCoy ( a pseudonym for an established thriller writer ) with Blood of the Fathers , which is to have a three-part television series , and A J Quinnell 's The Perfect Kill , a Chapmans title which was originally scheduled for March . |
| 16 | Royal Mail scientists tell us their next project is a book — or a box — of 100 sticky stamps . |
| 17 | We got ours in 1956 , and the filmed reports of the Hungarian uprising and of its refugees arriving in Britain gave me my first image of dramatic world events . |
| 18 | I think that Lawrence gives us our first clue in the writing of dialogue : that we must listen and , having listened , ask ourselves how we feel about the voice we 've just heard . |
| 19 | Then editor Ian Pye gave me my first assignment : ‘ Do the gig guide . |
| 20 | Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight . |
| 21 | He is still the same tee-total football maniac he was when Hal Stewart gave him his first Scottish job as player-manager of Morton . |
| 22 | For many of the students the course gives them their first stage experience and this is something which in itself produces a lot of concentrated work . |
| 23 | Boldness triumphed and they moved on towards Perth after sending a detachment of the Camerons to try to capture the fortified barracks at Ruthven , where it was left to stalwart Sergeant Molloy of Guise 's Regiment to give them their first rebuff . |
| 24 | The home team 's comeback was complete when Ford cross to the far post and Paul Read 's low header gave him his 17th goal of the season . |