Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 2 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |
| 3 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 4 | His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year . |
| 5 | Hearts ' bad day was made worse with the news that Celtic had moved past them into second place in the Premier Division after beating Falkirk 3–1 . |
| 6 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 7 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 8 | The one area of liability which really concerns the buyer is the possibility of claims made against him by third parties which arise because of some act or omission of the seller . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , old fellow in the cellarage , ’ she whispered lightly to herself , though the breath was shallow in her throat , ‘ it seems I must speak with you at last . ’ |
| 10 | Following a telephone conversation in late February in which Mr. expressed possible BWB interest in collaborating on a project to repair certain sections of the towpath , I had a first site meeting with him on 5th March . |
| 11 | There are , however , many cases in which differentiation occurs within what at first looks like a homogeneous sheet of tissue . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's heart-warming , ’ volunteered Mr Kronweiser , ‘ that justice will be done to him at last . ’ |
| 13 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 14 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |
| 15 | ‘ Annunziata , are you all right ? ’ asked Julia when the question of dinner was settled , relieved to be able to talk to her at last with reasonable fluency . |
| 16 | ‘ Could it be the Angels , trying to talk to us at last ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A few things have cropped up that I did n't have a chance to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 19 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 20 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 21 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 22 | Ruth was looking at her at last with sharp , bright black eyes . |
| 23 | But we will only win if you vote for us on 3rd May . |
| 24 | But we will only win if you vote for us on 3rd May . |
| 25 | The row is over her attempt to evict Xoliswa Falati , who was accused with her in last year 's sensational kidnap and assault trial , from one of the Mandela homes in Soweto . |
| 26 | and if it 's a tight one , and you 're going round it in first , really tight one , then what you need to be doing really is slipping the clutch |
| 27 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |
| 28 | Because , I mean , I , I 've , I 've got three weeks holiday owing to me from last year . |
| 29 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 30 | Yeah , well it 's , they 've done nowt but look at it for last three month . |