Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claire took part in the European Junior Masters in Brussels in May , a tournament held for national champions , where she finished in third place . |
| 2 | Her visitors in the Exeter nursing home where she died on 7th December saw all the qualities which made her such a servant of the trade continue unabated to the end — the common sense and humour , the courage , and the huge interest in others . |
| 3 | Mrs Taylor , a devout Baptist , made her claim against a clothing store , Franlow , where she worked until last July . |
| 4 | Those who trudged dutifully to the polls yesterday to mark their perforated ballot papers with an ‘ X ’ in the appropriate box , or who sat through last night 's results with only black coffee for company , would have witnessed a tableau of restrictive practices and old spanish customs fit to warm the heart of the most backward-looking member of Nalgo . |
| 5 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 6 | Right I 'll be for the rest of the tutorial really , erm find yourselves something to do , I just really want to follow up er the little amount of time that I spent with second years er looking at their action plans . |
| 7 | they 're improvements that I started with ninth year . |
| 8 | so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have |
| 9 | I WAS glad to see that someone has at last taken a stand on the cheap labour schemes connected with the TEC system . |
| 10 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 11 | I think maybe I have more ill effects than I imagined from last night … ’ |
| 12 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 13 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 14 | And it was n't until she 'd finished doing the washing-up , and the kitchen had been cleaned to her satisfaction , that she began at last to simmer down . |
| 15 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 16 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 17 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 18 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 19 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 20 | would n't you get one in that Princess that you got at first ? |
| 21 | Which is the the one that you 're sort of that you came across first of all the trig functions ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm so glad that you know at last , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 24 | But in spite of facing ever-deepening mystery and pressure , you 'll find you have far less to worry about than you think by next weekend . |
| 25 | ‘ So you got in first ? ’ |
| 26 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 27 | Yes that 's hello this is just an article that we went through last tutorial adjustment developing countries . |
| 28 | Which would be slightly down on er the number that we got in last year , erm , the next factor , erm , is not as yet a fact but is almost a certainty , that , er , all , we will not succeed on the present basis in persuading D O E that we should have any increase in t to reflect er er an increase in work , and next year we 're anticipating getting in effect a stand still budget . |
| 29 | Notice how Paul uses open string ideas ( bars 6–7 ) in a way that is very similar to the phrases that we looked at last month . |
| 30 | This shows the technique behind the ringing open string scale fingerings that we looked at last month , but applied to a short musical piece . |