Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 2 | ‘ I found the first steps of the next pitch were very difficult , and the rock rather pushed one out . |
| 3 | The overture finishes to applause , the curtains open , thunder rumbles and lightning flashes to reveal me , arms raised skyward and apparently floating in midair , as a huge mirror silently descends and I speak the first lines : |
| 4 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 5 | Air temperature was 15 ° C at 8.00 pm , just before complete darkness , when I heard the first voices in an extensively flooded field . |
| 6 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 7 | I think the first ones we had were about nineteen thirty six I believe . |
| 8 | Last month , I presented the first Investors in People awards . |
| 9 | Gooch who has Fletcher 's total support is nothing if not a fighter , however , and insisted last night : ‘ I 've no second thoughts about staying on as captain . ’ |
| 10 | I destroyed the last vestiges of that organisation two days back . |
| 11 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 12 | Appeals to Bloomsbury House to support job training and applications throw up some curious details : ‘ Ruth needs 2 prs. knickers and 1 apron ’ — she got the first items but not the apron . |
| 13 | It appears that she created the first men by patting yellow earth together . |
| 14 | THE link between dance music and drugs such as Ecstasy is a big worry to Catherine as she plans the next moves in her budding pop career . |
| 15 | She smiles as she meets the first customers of the day . |
| 16 | Two years ago the same infections almost killed her and she received the last rites . |
| 17 | What were your meetings like to start with , can you remember the first meetings ? |
| 18 | The Northern Echo published details of how she spent the last hours of her life on a shopping trip with her friend , Veronica Alderson , from Kirk Merrington . |
| 19 | A young woman who was with her hid when she heard the first shots and witnessed what happened . |
| 20 | She was in her first-floor sitting room , secure in her easy chair , when she heard the first sirens , saw the first police cars turn into her street . |
| 21 | Almost wrenching off the fragile beaded jacket , and unfastening the strapless dress so that it plummeted to the floor , she grabbed the first garments she found — light pink cotton trousers and a grey and white striped cotton blouse — then forced her feet into flat leather sandals without stopping to undo and refasten the thin buckled straps . |
| 22 | She watched the last races and the diving display . |
| 23 | Finally she reached the last notes , and took a final bow , practically flinging the microphone at Candy , who had stepped on stage to act as compère . |
| 24 | She saw the first researchers , long-dead now but their essence still lived , frozen in the flow of electrons . |
| 25 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 26 | As you play the 9th chords in bars 6 and 7 you might wish to finger the full voicing for each chord and only lightly strike the top three strings as indicated in the music . |
| 27 | Heather said she had no second thoughts about Chris , now working for Fujitsu at Newton Aycliffe . |
| 28 | She could not remember any more words , so she said the first words again , quietly but very clearly . |
| 29 | We passed the last houses , the last streetlights . |
| 30 | We report the first results from a study designed to evaluate the effects of the NHS reforms in general practices and hospitals in the Oxford region . |