Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was a flying boy , came in here and all of a sudden was involved in an operation that , that was er quite intense erm the , the noise of the aircraft erm the erm hustle and bustle that we went through , the , the briefings and the er experience of , of erm having a meal that could 've been your last meal . |
| 2 | So this has been my first step towards designing something different . |
| 3 | For most of our students , the main objective is to be able to communicate confidently in the language of their choice , so practice in listening and speaking are our first priorities . |
| 4 | For most it would have been their first experience of the internationalism of the movement . |
| 5 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 6 | It could have been her last name , or a state she like to exist in but I think it was a number involved . |
| 7 | ‘ Pity , it may have been your last day off for I do n't know how long . ’ |
| 8 | Last night Mr Gent 's heartbroken wife Jane said : ‘ Today would have been our 27th wedding anniversary . |
| 9 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
| 10 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle first refers to his presence under 994 , but this may not have been his first visit . |
| 11 | This , he agreed , would have been his first move had such a case landed on his desk , and he would have talked , too , to the local health visitor . |
| 12 | It was one of the tributes marking what would have been his fiftieth birthday , and as Paul Woodley now reports from New York , friends of the singer gathered at the United Nations to play the song as an anthem of peace . |
| 13 | The Glen would have been his hundredth race , but Cevert was tragically killed in practice and Ken withdrew his Tyrrells . |
| 14 | As for Mike Lawrence , it may have been his last test flight , but he was determined to go out in flamboyant style |
| 15 | Jimmy Nichol is the manager of Raith Rovers but that could have been his last match in charge as he is one of the favorites for the Northern Ireland match |
| 16 | That may have been my first mistake . |
| 17 | The two meanings are ( i ) ‘ the astronaut entered the atmosphere for ( at least ) the second time ’ and ( ii ) ‘ the astronaut returned to the atmosphere ( after what could have been his/her first trip into space ) ’ . |
| 18 | And there 's a field there , and there 's nothing , a couple of ponies in it and a caravan and when one of those died is it last year , or the year before there was one of the biggest funerals ever seen ! |
| 19 | ‘ The moment I will never forget is our second goal in the Cup final against Manchester United when he came on as a substitute . |
| 20 | I turned around to see Mr Lu playing what I thought was his third shot . |
| 21 | My parents ' steadfast refusal to countenance the anti-semitism common among many of the people they knew was my first lesson as a young child against accepting hearsay rather than the evidence of your own experience . |
| 22 | ‘ Trumper , the duty officer would like a word with you , ’ said the sergeant-major , after Charlie had completed what he had assumed was his last duty . |
| 23 | Spanish was to have been my next language : my winter 's task . |
| 24 | The nearest I could get was my first night in a barracks in Shropshire , at the start of National Service . |
| 25 | The short notice I did write was my first appearance in that journal , and I recall that Rowse did not much like it ; but then he did not like Collingwood either . |
| 26 | The 39-year-old , on what he insists is his last tour , re-asserted his intention to return home at the end of the India leg on 6 March — rather than go , after all , to Sri Lanka for the final fortnight in an effort to help restore confidence and belief to his side . |
| 27 | It had been her first time , she did n't love him , they did n't use any contraception and she definitely did n't expect to be pregnant as a result . |
| 28 | Sendei , despite his faults , had been her last link with a sane , reasonable universe . |
| 29 | What had been her last thoughts ? |
| 30 | The squash racquets , the Pope 's pronouncements , whose fault it had been their first night together , an afternoon really , but not much good in either case , the squash racquets again , the money spent on Grace . |