Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was showing this off in my first week — wishing I could walk on my hands too , like my father — when I broke the bed 's cast-iron frame . |
| 2 | Now she has followed this up with her second book , The Kitchen God 's Wife ( Flamingo , £5.99 , published April 23 ) , which is as powerful and moving as the first . |
| 3 | I mean this talks about what this particular booklet does , and and why we 're saying , it would have been useful to have had this probably for our last meeting really . |
| 4 | Sort this out at your first planning meeting and much will depend on the particular circumstances of your organisation . |
| 5 | The bouts of ill-health occasionally recorded ( they were always politically inconvenient ) became frequent only during his last years , but even then scarcely diminished the pace of a very active life . |
| 6 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 7 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 8 | Gloucestershire scored one hundred and seventy five ( 175 ) all out in their first . |
| 9 | PETER SUCH ( Essex ) produced a career-best 7-82 for England A against the Australian Cricket Academy in Melbourne which sent the ACA reeling to 231 all out in their first innings , after they appeared to be heading for a huge lead when they reached 159 for one . |
| 10 | Er the it was er usually gen well , you know , it was quite good apart from my last two years . |
| 11 | Whereas Hibs are still striving to find consistency , Simon Stainrod 's Dundee have taken seven points from eight out of their last four league matches , thank you very much . |
| 12 | She too would bestir herself ; there was still much to do , much ground to cover , and it was already ten o'clock on her fifth day . |
| 13 | How strange , thought Charsky , that he had watched him fall asleep here on his last night on earth . |
| 14 | At nine o'clock on his second evening at Plumford , he was sitting on the terrace of the Ferry Inn . |
| 15 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 16 | In June 1961 just before his sixtieth birthday he told Hartini that he was old by Indonesian standards . |
| 17 | The 41 women who did not report the result of their last insemination cycle ( over the entire follow up period ) were recorded as not successful up to their last but one cycle . |
| 18 | At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson , of Sleaford , would put in a severe challenge , but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69 , finishing a stroke behind the leaders . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm playing for the fun I can get out of it for myself , and not for them , ’ said the five-times Wimbledon champion after a 7–5 , 6–2 defeat by Frenchman Olivier Delaitre in the Nice Open yesterday in his first relevant match of this year 's comeback . |
| 20 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 21 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 22 | The item to covet most is the earliest and the most extended , the whole of the Lucia di Lammermoor mad scene in the recording Sutherland made in 1959 soon after her first Covent Garden triumph when her voice was at its freshest . |
| 23 | Wigan may have begun the season with uncertainty in losing four out of their first nine games but , once they got into their stride , there was no stopping them . |
| 24 | Apple Records got off to a fine start when its first release , Hey Jude , sold three million worldwide in its first month . |
| 25 | ‘ Seven o'clock for her next dose . |
| 26 | People remained active long after their eightieth year , and ages of over a hundred were common . |
| 27 | This is true especially of my last two monuments , the ones at Vukovar and Cacak . |
| 28 | Her sexual appetite will pass and she will be quiet again until her next heat . |