Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As chairman of the recently established development committee of this respected national association I enclose its first appeal brochure , in the hope that your Trustees will support our important apolitical and expanding remit . |
| 2 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 3 | No it 's no good Dennis I heard it last week . |
| 4 | Soon after starting my search I found my first good hammered — the Edward half-groat illustrated . |
| 5 | The protest is by Hong Kong 's Foo2 against Cyclone and Great News , second and third yesterday behind the 83ft Drumbeat which claimed her third handicap win of the series by 3 ½min . |
| 6 | By dissipating this investment she made her first , and her greatest political error . |
| 7 | In Australasia , for instance , the club you play your first game of the season for is your only club for that year and you are not allowed to transfer . |
| 8 | Given that approximately 500,000 children left school each year , the figure of 42,000 represents about 8% of all school-leavers who found their first full-time job through the juvenile exchange system , though a far greater number registered . |
| 9 | ‘ I know one jobber who spent his twentieth birthday in the slammer for throwing his VDU through a fifth-floor window on to the street . ’ |
| 10 | Thomson floats it in straight into the hands of Tommy Wright who hits it first time quite sensibly but a bit too strongly straight back to his opposite number . |
| 11 | On Saturday she had her first visit from a member of her family her grandson , the Duke of York . |
| 12 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 13 | Tails so if it 's tails you read it first |
| 14 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
| 15 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 16 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 17 | With the fall of Singapore the fate of Rangoon seemed sealed and on 19th February I paid my last visit to the Delta , to bring back our missionary nurse and to confer with village clergy and elders and teachers about what should be done if the worst happened . |
| 18 | The 24 texts which comprise her first work , Tropismes ( 1939 ) , are in fact closer to prose poems than traditional narrative . |
| 19 | FOR US , was a good day out , but planning for the Summer Fayre started about eight months ago for the Summer Fayre committee who held their first meeting last October ! |
| 20 | In spring 1991 the biennial Scottish Young People 's Survey will contact a representative sample of young people in Scotland who completed their last compulsory school year in 1990 . |
| 21 | Liverpool 's Ian Rush who scored his 200th league goal yesterday |
| 22 | HAVING taken her revenge on Sue Wright , the English girl who beat her last year , world champion Susan Devoy of New Zealand will be challenged by Cassie Jackman , England 's No 5 and world junior champion , in the semi-finals of the Hi-Tec British Open Championships , at Wembley , today . |
| 23 | A year after her marriage she had her second and last child , Frederick William . |
| 24 | And on that first night at home we had our first real sexual encounter , a rather one-sided one , with Dana quite passive . |
| 25 | Erm , in Aberdeen we had our first woman 's festival in nineteen ninety and we 're ready to have our second festival in nineteen ninety two . |
| 26 | In May they released their first single , ‘ Eleven O'Clock Tick Tock ’ , and spent the rest of the summer touring Britain . |
| 27 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
| 28 | Secure in the backing of an army corps and a party in Madrid the king refused to recognize the authority of the Regency ; on 4 May he published his first decree declaring the work of the Cortes null and void and adopting a modification of the Persian programme . |
| 29 | Swindon who won their first point on saturday are at home tomorrow to manchester city … just like old times with Brian Horton back in Central South … so much for football we 've got some new champions to celebrate tonight … |
| 30 | Swindon who won their first point on saturday are at home tomorrow to manchester city … just like old times with Brian Horton back in Central South … so much for football we 've got some new champions to celebrate tonight … |