Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history .
2 Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year !
3 While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted .
4 All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing .
5 It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress .
6 He said nothing more , merely gave her a last withering look before moving away .
7 She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic .
8 They 've just given you a first read .
9 I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 .
10 As a matter of fact I usually just give him the first line or two and leave him to get on with it .
11 So they do n't frighten them , you know , if you 're lying there you 're having a heart attack or you just had one the last thing you want to hear is sort of the noise of the siren , the panicking noise of a siren .
12 Individualism of this variety strives to put individuals in their social context , but nevertheless gives them the last laugh .
13 For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line .
14 As a result , despite his good looks and affable personality , women scarcely gave him a second glance .
15 His reward came in July 1655 when Carvajal and his two sons were endenizened , thus making him the first English Jew , at least since the expulsion in 1290 .
16 ‘ You could always consider it a last request . ’
17 Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result .
18 Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) .
19 My movements up to this had been quite natural , and if I could continue to make her think I was unaware of her presence , she would possibly give me a second chance .
20 You 're always give him the last sweet to him !
21 But I still enjoyed it the second time .
22 We always know what the next step in our lives should be — which area of our lives needs to be resolved or changed — and we need to find the courage and self-love to start moving .
23 Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought .
24 The doctrine is that whenever you are faced with a decision , you always follow what the last person who was faced with the same decision did .
25 I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes .
26 D. Hey , 1981 ) Mackworth occasionally appears as ‘ Judge Mackworth ’ , erroneously gives him a third wife .
27 Announcing this programme , the then Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , said dramatically , ‘ Our nuclear pioneers have now given us a second chance — to lead another industrial revolution in the second half of the twentieth century . '
28 And would Feargal now give him the third degree ?
29 It now reckons its the first national distribution company to get Part One accreditation .
30 Whatever time I ran him back , there was always a smiling , cheerful member of staff to greet him , strap him into the stair lift , help him to undress if necessary and even bring him a last cup of tea if he felt like one .
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