Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 2 | ‘ I just do n't fancy tackling her a third time . ’ |
| 3 | IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador . |
| 4 | CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year . |
| 5 | He tells them that Claudia has written them a last message . |
| 6 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |
| 7 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 8 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
| 9 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 10 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 11 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 12 | Suppose , for example , that your most recent life had been a particularly horrifying and traumatic one : you would not really want to experience it the first time you were regressed , as you might not be able to cope . |
| 13 | There were three words in the do n't ring yet there were three words in the title I 'll give you two you have got to give me the last one . |
| 14 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to make you the next Madonna . ’ |
| 16 | Elizabeth answered that she particularly did not want anything to remain that might hurt any living person among her friends — and so with one blow.she destroyed the ‘ flat ’ characters , who could have given her a second literary fame . |
| 17 | His early acquaintance with Pub ] ius Rutilius Rufus at the school of Panaetius must have given him a first taste of Roman optimates : later he had Pompey and Cicero among his admirers . |
| 18 | It was a joke really , because if she was one of the male officers then she would not have given it a second thought . |
| 19 | Should have realised it the first time , but that 's what happens when you make assumptions . |
| 20 | She would have said it a third , even a fourth time , but he sealed her mouth with his own , possessing its sweetness with a plunderer 's purpose . |
| 21 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 22 | … commanded his armie to halt , and himselfe went alone to the toppe where , having sighted the Mar del Sur , he knelt down and raising his hands to Heaven , pouring forth mighty praises to God for His great grace in having made him the first man to discover and sight it . |
| 23 | Hell , he could n't even ask , having told her the next time she would have to take the initiative , but if she did n't take it soon he was going to go out of his mind ! |
| 24 | Oh I always give you first cup , I 'll have to give you the last one then . |
| 25 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 26 | Whether she had or not , he felt compelled to ask her a last question , even if it did annoy or depress her . |
| 27 | He did n't have to tell me a second time . |
| 28 | Luckily she appeared so insignificant with all the bags that no one bothered to give her a second glance . |
| 29 | That means , they 've raised a third , we 've given them a third , and they got a third to raise . |
| 30 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |