Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 So , I would expect that to continue and expect erm , revenue to get ahead of last year .
2 This happy mood lasted roughly until last autumn .
3 PRESIDENT Franois Mitterrand of France threw his weight yesterday behind a Soviet proposal to bring forward to next year a 35-nation conference to hammer out the future shape of Europe .
4 My route to work involves a lot of difficult roads with the engine spinning away in second gear , but I average 38 to 40 mpg .
5 remind you that all money at the moment goes either to first which is n't quite so bad cos they 're family but a vast amount goes into and , both of whom have therefore access to our commercial sensitive , for want of a better term , information and we want to control that .
6 The clouds were parting and the moon showed dimly at first when the 12-pounder gun 's crew of cooks and stewards closed up aboard the destroyer .
7 She possessed a boiler suit bought recently from Next , which seemed in theory appropriate , but it was bright orange , with a yellow flower appliquéd on the bib , and it might , she thought , lack dignity .
8 The metal yields easily at first , hardens somewhat and then breaks off in a brittle fashion .
9 Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about .
10 Well , we come off duty , we go on duty tonight at half past ten , and we come off at half past ten on Friday night , and we actually leave Didcot fire station at half five Saturday morning to get there for first light so we can make most use of the light , daylight hours .
11 This road climbs moderately at first to Marbach , a well regarded unsophisticated winter sports resort with cablecar and skilifts to the Marbachegg sun-terrace ( Timetable No 1500 ) .
12 On the track and field scene , did n't the province do well in last weekend 's All-Ireland League finals in Tullamore with victory by the Lisburn women and third placings for the young Lagan Valley women and understrength Annadale men .
13 On the track and field scene , did n't the province do well in last weekend 's All-Ireland League finals in Tullamore with victory by the Lisburn women and third placings for the young Lagan Valley women and understrength Annadale men .
14 It would not have been difficult to fill this page with a glowing report based entirely on first impressions .
15 A party of ten visited between 25th May and 8th June , whilst a similar number went there between 7th and 21st September .
16 The book had now at last acquired its final title , The Birth of Tragedy , or in full , with qualifying subtitle , The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music ( Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik ) and on 16 November , under this title , it was accepted . "
17 The daughter 's story proceeds serenely at first , then hits a sickening crunch ; raped at 11 , she is shot into wary adulthood .
18 THE Justice Department admitted yesterday that it had granted the FBI authority to ‘ override ’ international law in order to seize fugitives from US justice living abroad without first obtaining the consent of the country where they were sheltering .
19 Yorath saves best for last
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