Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] a [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give me a nineteenth nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 2 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 5 | At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more . |
| 6 | Donna gave me a last dazzling smile , then , apparently impervious to McIllvanney 's evil-tempered scorn , clicked away on her ridiculously high heels . |
| 7 | It was a very helpful preparation and gave her a first real taste of teaching . |
| 8 | He said nothing more , merely gave her a last withering look before moving away . |
| 9 | She gave him a last long look and went out , shutting it with unnecessary firmness behind her . |
| 10 | Last but not least Surrey have given us a second fine Chairman in Pauline Kenward . |
| 11 | You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it . |