Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pool of silence which fell between them Laura raised her eyes and took her first good , clear look at the man she had married , and whom she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 2 | It was spoken in Lowland Scotland for many centuries and generated our first literature , indeed , Europe 's first literature outside Latin and Greek . |
| 3 | Turn and go past the swimming baths and take your first right and you 're going more or less down to erm where that boy married what you |
| 4 | Get the knives and forks and some bread and a few plates and take them next door ! 1 ’ |
| 5 | This week , in the inaugural Fiji International Sevens , the Scots will be able to devote further studies to the Australians and get their first glimpse of Tonga , against whom they are also drawn in the Hong Kong Sevens . |
| 6 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances . |
| 8 | He is now recovering at home in Barnard Castle after three operations and celebrated his 50th birthday on Monday . |
| 9 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 10 | Ethics , religion , culture and education are the four key elements of a new Study and Action Programme which will guide WACC during the next five years and shape its second international congress in 1995 . |
| 11 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 12 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 13 | Without Shirley , he probably would n't have done a ton of marathons and collected his first medal from the Hundred Club . |
| 14 | Cash bonuses come the way of the super seasiders whom Byrne plays 15 first team matches and wins his first full cap . |
| 15 | A FREE KICK goal two minutes from the end by Jimmy Phillips gave Middlesbrough their first victory , 2–1 over Tranmere , in five League games and improved their Second Division play-off hopes at Prenton Park . |
| 16 | Llanelli scrum-half Rupert Moon sets the Scarlets in motion as they savage Pooler 27–3 at Pontypool Park to claim a place in the Schweppes Cup semi-finals and record their second win over Pontypool within a week . |
| 17 | ICI Chlor-Chemicals takes salt solution from its brine fields and turns it first into chlorine and then into a host of downstream products . |
| 18 | The man was Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte ; the many were that section of the French people who , newly enfranchised in 1848 , gave him their votes and made him first their president and then their emperor . |
| 19 | While Hughes Aircraft , for example , was offering $18m in goods and services for the rebuilding effort ( its boss , Michael Armstrong , was an RLA board member ) Hughes 's parent , General Motors , was shedding 2,600 local jobs and closing its last remaining car plant in the area . |
| 20 | The same year he resigned from teaching and , helped by influential friends made while collecting material for his museums , undertook a variety of part-time jobs and published his first books , until in 1862 he became a civil servant on the staff of the India Museum , where he remained until 1880 . |