Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was said to have been depressed after sitting his first exam … and apparently left a suicide note in his room . |
| 2 | Allen and McNab are fit again , but will be restricted to the bench by City , who will not change the team that has scored 12 in winning their last three games . |
| 3 | And I I really do n't think they have any business without consulting you and me , as the peoples that they represent , because I 'm I 'm a voter in North Yorkshire too , so I do n't think they have any business actually doing this without consulting us first of all . |
| 4 | The left-wing New Democratic Party ( NDP ) , Canada 's second-largest opposition grouping , scored a spectacular success on Feb. 12 by winning its first federal parliamentary seat in the province of Quebec . |
| 5 | She faces world 10,000 metres champion Liz McColgan in the 1500 metres in Sheffield on June 6 and 7 after registering her first victory of the summer with a rare 3,000 metres outing at Cardiff . |
| 6 | Mansell , 38 , clearly delighted at completing his second hat-trick , refused to discuss his prospects of claiming his first championship , despite the retirements of both Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger in the two new Marlboro McLaren Honda MP4/7As . |
| 7 | Keegan takes a 17-man squad to Bristol Rovers as his high-fliers bid to justify new promotion odds of 3-1 after winning their last six League games . |
| 8 | Prior to starting their fourth album , the Mondays were characteristically in a state of organised chaos . |
| 9 | ‘ A jubilant Mrs Thatcher ( waving stick ) outside No.10 prior to starting her sixth term . ’ |
| 10 | and I never give out documents that are going to be important without copying them first . |
| 11 | " You do n't use grown-up words like that without hearing them first , Miss Gristy , " she said . |
| 12 | And McMullan owes McClure one after losing his last two games against him in the Irish indoor singles championship . |
| 13 | And McMullan owes McClure one after losing his last two games against him in the Irish indoor singles championship . |
| 14 | Right : P&O Roadtanks HGV Fitter , Mick Richardson , looks calm and collected after completing his fourth marathon |
| 15 | New Zealand added 59 to their overnight 163 for one before declaring their second innings at 222 for five , Mark Greatbatch scoring an aggressive 88 . |
| 16 | A STRUGGLING school football team in Middlesbrough is cock-a-hoop at winning its first games of the season . |
| 17 | Australia were painstakingly slow in building their second innings total , opener Mark Taylor taking four hours and 11 minutes to score 42 . |
| 18 | A university spokesman said last night he could not comment on speculation that Mr Powell , who was studying for a BSc in applied biology , had been anxious about sitting his first year exams . |
| 19 | The first sees Dawn Milligan 's Valentinos Joy , drawn favourably in trap two after winning its last two opens at Sunderland , lining up against the highly respected Belle Vue dog No Joe Soap ( trap 4 ) and Brough Park 's Movealong Sharp ( 3 ) . |
| 20 | Lynch ungraciously dropped Wilson early in 1936 before losing his first fight in two and a half years , a non-title match in Belfast . |
| 21 | In the Italian league , full of good teams , it has lately notched up an all-time record — no defeats in 58 successive games — and is close to winning its 13th title . |
| 22 | At time of NME going to press , the situation in the charts was still ongoing , but the MAS campaign seemed to be close to striking its first blow with the new HOLLY JOHNSON single hovering around the Top 100 . |
| 23 | In the Men 's Singles , Derek Wood will be intent on taking his sixth title in 10 years , with the main opposition coming from Peter Burrows and Iain Vine . |
| 24 | Now the onset of summer drew near to marking our first year together and I began to sense a distinct cooling in Joe 's attitude to me . |
| 25 | The incident , and his own weak , almost contemptible handling of it came near to making his third premiership seem to himself and others an ill-judged prolongation of power , a disastrous epilogue to the rest of his career . |
| 26 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |