Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] [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 Sort this out at your first planning meeting and much will depend on the particular circumstances of your organisation .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Gloucestershire scored one hundred and seventy five ( 175 ) all out in their first .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October .
13 Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October .
14 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 .
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