Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brother , Francisco Garçia Lorca , has very finely defined the canciones , one of the most notable poetic forms used by Lorca , as a lyric in which : the poet checks his first flights in order to achieve greater purification … |
| 2 | I feel like a priest giving someone Last Rites , only this Priest wants to scream . |
| 3 | Foxe describes his last moments : ‘ He was brought forth to the place of execution , was there tied to the stake , and then strangled by the hangman , and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning at the town of Vilvorde , AD 1536 ; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice : ‘ Lord , open the King of England 's eyes ’ . ’ |
| 4 | The sun curls its last rays round the mountain . |
| 5 | In the Original Treatment it says : ‘ Natasha tells Lemmy that she loves him , but pronounces it as a child speaks its first words ’ |
| 6 | Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ? |
| 7 | England football manager Graham Taylor at least managed to enjoy Christmas after the team got their first points in their World Cup qualifying group . |
| 8 | Just before half-time , Town got their second sheers break and Fowley bungled the ball home . |
| 9 | Workmates of a computer technician who 's thought to have have killed his wife and children before committing suicide have held a memorial service to pay their last respects . |
| 10 | The 30-year-old rode 313 winners in South Africa this season to land his fifth jockeys ' title in record style . |
| 11 | As they do this , trusting in God 's help , inching forward like a baby taking its first steps , a sense of reality will return to their faith as well as their lives . |
| 12 | But with the top two players sidelined , it would present 36-year-old Martina Navratilova with a golden opportunity to lift her 10th singles crown . |
| 13 | The bill receives its first Commons reading in a fortnight . |
| 14 | Woodhill takes its first inmates in five months . |
| 15 | After Ahlquist made his first observations on the alpha and beta receptors , and before they had any practical development , another series of drugs appeared which , somewhat unexpectedly , contributed to the treatment of hypertension . |
| 16 | The book gives his first impressions of Italy : art and antiquities , landscape , the Roman Catholic Church and its ceremonies , and the way of life of the people . |
| 17 | Deafening silence greeted their first efforts , yet nothing dissuaded the instrument-swapping Boston crew . |
| 18 | Following the general election on Sept. 27 the new 341-member Chamber of Deputies and 143-member Senate held their first sessions on Oct. 16 . |
| 19 | Steam made its last gasps in BR passenger trains , through the heating pipes of passenger coaches . |
| 20 | She felt about as poised as a baby elephant taking his first steps , she thought miserably . |
| 21 | While Leopold recovered the family had to live without income , though it seems likely that Mozart made use of the interlude to compose his first symphonies . |
| 22 | There tears all round before the day ended on an all-american note , the school song and Rissington elementary school said its last goodbyes . |
| 23 | They used to come here , yes , to this hotel to spend their last nights before they went to that bridge to hurl themselves off , sometimes in front of a train ; but now the line has gone and the track removed we do n't get so many nuts coming to end their days . |
| 24 | Had he really chosen this pain as the way to spend his last minutes ? |
| 25 | A FAMILY paid their last respects — then alerted air traffic control before firing their dad 's ashes into the heavens inside 28 sky rockets . |
| 26 | ‘ Your sister 's son spent his last days with me . |
| 27 | ‘ A very nervous poodle having her first puppies , ’ he explained . |
| 28 | To 1967 , I 'd add another year , an equivalent point of take-off — 1979 ( punk energy making its first altercations with black dance production , dub and funk , its first trysts with electronics , its first stabs at multi-media performance ) . |
| 29 | A few months ago the plant recruited its first workers — the men and women , mainly aged under 25 , whose minds and fingers are agile enough to turn out microscopic silicon chips by the hundreds of thousands . |