Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them Friday the 13th had come a day early . |
| 2 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 3 | After their dismissal the first and sixth defendants drafted a business plan for the purpose of raising finance to set up a Bureau de Change business in competition with the plaintiffs . |
| 4 | Sebastian 's hat was back on the coat fixture when Leith left for her office the next morning . |
| 5 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 6 | All 12 winners having met up the evening before for an Italian meal at The Campana in London 's West End , followed by a night at The Regent Crest Hotel , the second half of the group arrived bright and early at the studio , ready for their transformations the next day . |
| 7 | Apparently when they pulled me out of the river and bashed the water out of my belly the first thing I said as I came round was , ‘ Riddled with diseases , I 'm sure ’ and the crew broke up in this hysterical laughter . |
| 8 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 9 | Obviously Rune must have thought she harboured some grudge against him and had been anxious to prevent a potential display of hostility in front of his colleagues the next day . |
| 10 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 11 | However , she also agreed to attend a conjoint session with her parents the next week . |
| 12 | Sails and rigging trailing over the side , and bows noticeably down , the first ship swung broadside on to the current of the river , and into its flank the second crashed , both drifting towards the pole-marked shallows of the sand-banks . |
| 13 | The plaintiffs ' claim in these proceedings is based on allegations of a complicated fraud said to have been perpetrated by the first defendant Mr. Tully in conspiracy with his wife the second defendant , Mrs. Tully and with all or some of the other first 16 defendants . |
| 14 | You 'd better clear that with your nan the next time we see her . |
| 15 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 16 | Jessie Young fired my imagination with her tales of warfare , politics and terror at Berwick , and fanned in my heart the first flames of a lifelong fascination with Scotland 's history . |
| 17 | In my case the third effect is that someone shouts ‘ Stop leaning forward ! ’ |
| 18 | We were dyeing popcorn , of all things , in two bowls of red and yellow Dolly-dye in my sink the next morning when I heard John moving about . |
| 19 | I remember feeling sad one minute and shoving a giant cookie in my mouth the next . ’ |
| 20 | In any case , they had moved from their Islington address — 14 James Street , St Peter 's Street — to 140a High Street , Hoxton Old Town , by 1852 , in which year a third son , Henry Joseph , was born . |
| 21 | To be successful the direction-shifts of the fleeing animal must be irregular so that the predator can not anticipate either when or in which direction the next change of course will be . |
| 22 | For example you could use the letter P , in which case the last two lines might be : " It 's my patience , you brat , so come here and take that ! " |
| 23 | Well if you 've almost drowned her one week I should think you could quite well bring yourself to put a spider in her desk the next week said Daryl . |
| 24 | As Simone de Beauvoir argued in her book The Second Sex , man has constructed woman as ‘ the Other ’ , as the one who is not oneself . |
| 25 | Arlie Hochschild in her book The Second Shift interviewed 10 couples over 12 years , from 1976 to 1988 . |
| 26 | For the moment it is enough to underline the relevance of this suggestion to the Sonnets , the whole experience of which is presented from the point of view of ego alone , from which perspective the third person is indeed a sign of a double absence , both of the I and the Thou . |
| 27 | Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths . |
| 28 | From its inception the Second Empire resembled a splendid military pageant , with its colourful regiments whose uniforms were ornamented with sabretaches , aiguillettes and gleaming leather . |
| 29 | Mr James Johnston , in whose house the first meeting of Sunday School teachers took place , was in real terms , the most generous benefactor Edenderry Church has ever had . |
| 30 | He paused , detecting in his voice the first trace of that reedy mixture of sarcasm and pomposity which he knew occasionally affected him and to which he was morbidly sensitive . |