Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Many thanks to Janet Brown and her band of helpers from the Sutton , Epsom , Malden areas of Surrey for providing a lovely tea for us on 3rd April .
2 Have you shipwrecked that crazy boat of yours at last ? "
3 I 'm pleased I 've managed to get hold of you at last .
4 When she woke up , she found she was at home with him at last . ’
5 It had been hoped to finish preparation work on it by last September but production did not start until the end of December .
6 The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ .
7 When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ .
8 ‘ We have now asked Reed to suspend the proposed changes until we have had a meeting with them on 22nd April .
9 We 've got no sighting of her after first thing Saturday morning . ’
10 I pay tribute to him for first raising the subject of league tables for schools ' performances in the Bill that he introduced earlier in the year .
11 Paying tribute to him before last night 's show , Mr Barraclough said the best thing about working with Les Dawson was the laughter .
12 They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward .
13 ‘ We 've got some penicillin for you at last .
14 It 's good to have news of you at last !
15 MAY I please be allowed to comment on just one of the points in Mr Prytherch 's letter ( WCM July ) , written in refutation of mine of last December .
16 Cliftonville are now a team to be respected by other Irish League outfits and good luck to them in next week 's Irish Cup semi-final .
17 ‘ Did n't I tell you you 'd fall in love with her at first sight ? ’
18 She 's got the hang of it at last Chloe , you 're alright now !
19 ‘ I am hopeful that we will be able to persuade them to throw in their lot with us for next season .
20 But in spite of what had happened at the fashion show she did not think Paula had any hand in it until next day at breakfast .
21 Mr Reenan , of Abingdon , Oxon , confessed : ‘ I can not deny there was a greed aspect to it at first but I regret it now .
22 I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year .
23 When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning .
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