Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , you 'd feel too guilty enjoying your third cup of coffee as your running fanatic slogs around the course , but where on earth do you stand ? |
| 2 | Nobody is prepared to predict what next month 's Solidarity congress will do and nobody knows exactly when the next election might be . |
| 3 | Watch out for the credits at the beginning of the programme : I 'm willing to bet my next season 's average that the batsman hitting the ball out of the ground will be Australian , while the batsman being clean-bowled by Merv Hughes 's moustache will be English . |
| 4 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 5 | It 's due to receive its second reading in the committee stage of the House of Lords today . |
| 6 | Detectives believe the pensioner , who is due to celebrate her 100th birthday next month , was repeatedly punched in the face by her attacker who probably escaped through the bedroom window . |
| 7 | The funeral service today at the church of St John the Baptist on the edge of the Lonsdale estate is just a week before Louis was due to celebrate his first birthday . |
| 8 | Two other garages have been hit by the same man in just 6 days and a police helicopter is on standby to track him next time he strikes . |
| 9 | Forget , eager after his long break , was delighted to reach his first semi-final in a Super Series event for three years . |
| 10 | It was certainly significant to the next stage of Nicholson 's career , and indeed what was happening in Hollywood itself at a time of changing tastes which made it almost impossible to predict what next year 's cinema audience would go into raptures about . |
| 11 | When it was not appropriate to have it last week , my hon. Friend the Member for Leicestershire , North-West ( Mr. Ashby ) made the facility available this evening . |
| 12 | Captain R.R. ( Bill ) Baldwin 's platoon had a patrol out under Corporal Palmer when the Japanese launched their first attack ( see map p. 77 ) and the platoons withdrew through enemy patrolled country , laying ambushes in the scrub . |
| 13 | As the mouse pointer hovers above each button , or indeed any of the drop-down menu options , a short description of the function appears in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen making it really easy to produce your first spreadsheet with minimum reference to the manual . |
| 14 | NAFUTH , runner-up on both his starts to date , looks set to make it third time lucky in the EBF Dunkirk Maiden Stakes ( Division One ) at Doncaster tomorrow . |
| 15 | They are due to play their 1,000th performance in mid-April . |
| 16 | Lastly , David O'Leary is due to play his first comeback game for the reserves this week . |
| 17 | For some unexplained reason many housewives had cooked beef in one form or another that night and Coffin was probably lucky to find his second supper was cold , for all over South London people were pushing their plates back . |
| 18 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
| 19 | Manager Ferguson is still undecided on his team but £1million Dion Dublin looks likely to start his first game . |
| 20 | Offenders who were reconvicted within the follow-up period were likely to have their first reconviction fairly soon after sentence ( or , for those given custodial sentences , after discharge ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We were certainly quite lucky to beat them last week . ’ |
| 22 | I was glad to get your last letter , which sounded so much more cheerful and relaxed than the first . |
| 23 | JESUS AND MARY CHAIN look likely to follow their fifth LP , ‘ Honey 's Dead ’ , with a new , mainly acoustic album , featuring astonishing special guest cameos . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Claudia ; Dana was supposed to tell you last night . |
| 25 | I imagine so , is she due to do them next year ? |
| 26 | It was this base which , allowing for the unusual circumstances of the General Election of December 1923 , permitted Labour to form its first government early in 1924 . |
| 27 | They were so engrossed asking questions and spending their Sainsbury 's gift vouchers that they were too late to visit their next port of call — Windsor Castle ! |
| 28 | We predict that Mark will take nothing like as long to win his third Tour event . |
| 29 | He bowled well on his debut at Lord 's and was unlucky to play his second Test at Old Trafford , which is such a good batting wicket these days . |
| 30 | Leeds did great to win it last year , but it will be much harder the second time around . |