Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when is the , the sale in is it next Saturday ? |
| 2 | Both men had a history of lawlessness , petty felonies and misdemeanours , but this was to be their first foray into serious and hopefully prosperous crime , an opportunity prompted by pure chance . |
| 3 | In many cases NoS was to be their first experiment . |
| 4 | They consider Northern Ireland to be their second home and visit it as often as possible . |
| 5 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 6 | AS the shouting , mud-slinging and patriotic appeals die away , Americans face the crunch the moment when they have to decide who is to be their next President . |
| 7 | Marian grudgingly watched it disappear , it seemed to be their last link with the village , from now on the forest must feed them . |
| 8 | With the championship having been decided , this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores . |
| 9 | The crew were in high spirits as they passed over the channel as this was to be their last mission before leave , away from the stress of bombing well protected targets over Germany . |
| 10 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 11 | This is believed to be their 5th raid — with reports of incidents in Aylesbury and Thame . |
| 12 | Dr Roger Berry , currently BNFL 's Director of Health & Safety , is to be its first director . |
| 13 | When the American train , the ‘ De Witt Clinton ’ , clattered along the rails in 1831 the good citizens of Albany , proud to be its first passengers , were showered with burning embers from the tall funnel of the locomotive . |
| 14 | The most dangerous of all the spiders is the black widow , a small species that is common throughout America and which responds to vibrations of its web by rushing out and biting what it considers to be its next meal . |
| 15 | In her capacity as patron of Relate , the princess was making what is believed to be her first visit to such a centre since her separation from the prince was announced late last year . |
| 16 | Zola Budd , in what was to be her last season , was to resume rivalry with Ingrid Kristiansen and Maricica Puica . |
| 17 | Rub over the Early Reply bonus seal on your Entry Bond with a coin to find out if you are eligible to be our first £100,000 Double Prize Draw Winner . |
| 18 | She was a local farmer 's wife and she went on to be our first member of Parliament and me brother was helping her and mum and dad , you see , was working for the , we , we got the house as a committee room and all , all the and I can remember going with mother , we had , we had a Co-op paper or it was Co-op orientated I 'm sure news and I can remembering canvassing Walsall Wood with me mother , well I ca n't see my Guild members doing that . |
| 19 | Fortunately she had the better 5th time and went on to be our first finalist for several years while Wood of Australia in the other semi not only lost her final place but also her Olympic spot . |
| 20 | It was to be our first encounter with the " Bisus " , a bizarre peripatetic sect of transvestite and largely hermaphrodite Bugis priests who , it later transpired , were performing the traditional trance rite to accompany rice-planting . |
| 21 | This was to be our first meeting since the threat of further surgery or at the least , drugs . |
| 22 | Next week is the last programme from the current batch of Ideas in Action , and also happens to be our hundredth programme . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's gon na have to be our last ride , is n't it , Sambo ? |
| 24 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 25 | This was to be my first climb on ‘ real rock , ’ as I had only experienced exercises on short problems in an old gritstone quarry during the previous winter . |
| 26 | At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission . |
| 27 | 9 am on Tuesday was to be my first lesson . |
| 28 | Well , crazy , I suppose I 'm crazy , I 've always thought runners were crazy , I 've always , you know , said friends and colleagues that used to run were mad , it only started off to get fit for skiing , and well , I hit , you know , I 've got the bug , and er well it 's going to be my first marathon and it 's definitely going to be my last marathon . |
| 29 | A difficult moment for me occurred when Phil Collins came on the show , simply because what I knew but he did n't , was that he was going to be my first guest on This Is Your Life the following week . |
| 30 | I spent the rest of 20th February , which happened to be my fortieth birthday , taking the girl students back to their homes in and around Rangoon . |