Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enrolled under my maiden name , because I wanted other students to know me as a person first , as opposed to a professor 's wife . |
| 2 | Well quite a lot , we we went out with them for a meal last night erm we had an interpreter who who was the only one that could speak English but it was it was well worth the evening , it did a lot for relationships and I think that there should be more of this in football , that off the field people should get to know each other a lot better and we felt at the end of the evening that it had been well worthwhile . |
| 3 | Your article on hedgehogs in the March issue reminded me of an incident last summer . |
| 4 | The four , who re-release their single Thank You For The Music next week , split up 10 years ago . |
| 5 | But the thing is if you 're walking up er the driveway of a house , you do n't want to be caught and you do n't want to be seen and you , you think you 're under cover of darkness and then the big halogen floodlight comes on , puts you in a spotlight next door . |
| 6 | Then he said , ‘ It was you in the passage last night , was n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | They think they have seen her somewhere before — was she on the television last night ? |
| 8 | ‘ Was that you on the phone last night ? ’ |
| 9 | Now that list is provided with you on the day first day of your assignment . |
| 10 | Brigadier Gatehouse is coming to start you on the shooting next week and Miss Bedwelty is coming to discuss the riding arrangements today . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 12 | Was you at the Park last night , madam ? |
| 13 | Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division . |
| 14 | She 's the girl who let me into the house last might … |
| 15 | He punched me in the head first , from the side . ’ |
| 16 | My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House . |
| 17 | Mrs Lennox said Air Chief Marshal Sir Roger Palin , Air Member for Personnel , told them in a letter last month that their application was ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ before they had even submitted estimates from insurance companies of what their children 's education was likely to cost . |
| 18 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 19 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 20 | Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold . |
| 21 | if you 're interested , then we can do that in the bath , can you put them in the box first |
| 22 | If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first , she 's immediately led astray by extras like ‘ free use of private beach ’ , ‘ heated swimming pool ’ or ‘ wine-tasting ’ . |
| 23 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 24 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 25 | Francis always takes him for a walk last thing before going to bed . |
| 26 | Instead of lifting her into the saddle first , as he had always done before , he mounted Chalon , turned the horse in a tight circle to present its left flank to Isabel , and extended an imperative hand . |
| 27 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 28 | Courteously seating her inside the car first , he walked round to the driver 's side , and when he had settled himself behind the wheel asked unexpectedly , ‘ Have you visited one of our pubs yet ? ’ |
| 29 | The equally indomitable Dunwoody had his second fall of the day on Calabrese and completed a painful hat-trick when King of The Lot unseated him in the Tote 7th Handicap Chase , won by Howe Street . |
| 30 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |