Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning . |
| 2 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 3 | Hearts ' bad day was made worse with the news that Celtic had moved past them into second place in the Premier Division after beating Falkirk 3–1 . |
| 4 | We 've got no sighting of her after first thing Saturday morning . ’ |
| 5 | Derby when just run out of it for third place by Fly Smasher . |
| 6 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 7 | Indeed , if I had thought that , I would no doubt have been disabused of it by last night 's debate , to which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) so ably replied . |
| 8 | This famous five have experienced the spectrum of emotions stirred up in many of us by last year 's frightening food-related newspaper headlines . |
| 9 | So I 'll get some tables for you for next time erm if |
| 10 | So if you have a look at those and play with them for next time erm and make sure that you learn those two rules about if the signs are the same |
| 11 | ‘ But there will be books to buy from men who are finished with them from last year ; it will cost less , ’ said Willie . |
| 12 | I 'll explain Have you got your notes with you from last week ? |
| 13 | ‘ Did n't I tell you you 'd fall in love with her at first sight ? ’ |
| 14 | His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year . |
| 15 | The row is over her attempt to evict Xoliswa Falati , who was accused with her in last year 's sensational kidnap and assault trial , from one of the Mandela homes in Soweto . |
| 16 | It was the first time she had been alone with him since last night and the thought of it made her fluttery inside . |
| 17 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 18 | First , and rather obviously , subjects unfamiliar with a rather complex dynamic decision problem under risk have difficulty in coping with it on first acquaintance . |
| 19 | Claiming that health workers ' fears were being overcome and that there was now a much better understanding of the plans , Mr Clarke said : ‘ There are volunteers all over the service waiting for Parliament to approve these provisions so we can get on with it from next summer onwards . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am hopeful that we will be able to persuade them to throw in their lot with us for next season . |
| 21 | I have n't heard from her since last summer . |
| 22 | But in spite of what had happened at the fashion show she did not think Paula had any hand in it until next day at breakfast . |
| 23 | Cliftonville are now a team to be respected by other Irish League outfits and good luck to them in next week 's Irish Cup semi-final . |
| 24 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 25 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 26 | It seems to me of first importance to confront this kind of question realistically and not to discredit one 's cause by refusing to admit that the clash exists . |
| 27 | Because , I mean , I , I 've , I 've got three weeks holiday owing to me from last year . |
| 28 | ‘ A few things have cropped up that I did n't have a chance to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 30 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |