Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [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 | By dissipating this investment she made her first , and her greatest political error . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On Saturday she had her first visit from a member of her family her grandson , the Duke of York . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tails so if it 's tails you read it first |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A year after her marriage she had her second and last child , Frederick William . |
| 13 | And on that first night at home we had our first real sexual encounter , a rather one-sided one , with Dana quite passive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In May they released their first single , ‘ Eleven O'Clock Tick Tock ’ , and spent the rest of the summer touring Britain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 19 | I would not rest easy knowing Araminta would see you off without so much as a penny piece the moment I breathe my last . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a good job I saw you first , then ! ’ |
| 21 | That evening I had my first meal since leaving England eighteen hours before ; by the time the pizza , chicken stew and garlicked beans arrived from the kitchen they were cold , but I was so hungry that I had seconds , which amazed Alex . |
| 22 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 23 | Back at the beginning of November we instigated our first car boot sale , which we reluctantly accept was less than a 110 per cent success . |
| 24 | A Fraud Squad detective said : ‘ I hope for his sake we find him first . ’ |
| 25 | Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai . |
| 26 | It was his grandparents he spent his first Christmas with . |
| 27 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 28 | In Santiago we had our first taste of the famed Spanish seafood . |
| 29 | By the end of that day I had my first shots of a mink family in action . |
| 30 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |