Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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31 He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift .
32 When the cotton trade began to boom in the 1780s , Africa and Asia took between them a fifth of cotton goods exported , with Europe and America sharing the rest almost equally .
33 Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus .
34 Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time .
35 It 's hopelessly confusing to a child if you laugh at her behaviour one day , but shout at her the next for the same trick .
36 Please reserve for me a sixteenth of a page space in the August issue of Folk Roots .
37 THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) .
38 It did to me the first time we stayed .
39 Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor .
40 I knew that Syl 's mother , like my own , would consider talking to yourself the first sign of madness .
41 Is n't talking to yourself the first sign ?
42 If I was left to it the first pint would go about
43 Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him .
44 ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her .
45 Subsequent writers , however , have copied Patrick Forbes 's work without checking for themselves , and the misleading myth has evolved in which the first thousand litres of the cuvée is believed to be officially designated the premiere cuvée .
46 As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism .
47 She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home .
48 In highlighted pen that you know so when he goes out with someone in ninete , in two thousand he 'll say to someone the last time I went out with someone was in nineteen ninety three .
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