Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , I have two letters on the side I open the first one . |
| 2 | With a sigh of satisfation she drained the last of her soup from the Thermos cup and chewed the remaining scrap of bread and cheese . |
| 3 | Or you may find that when you first start on your weight control programme you lose the first 3–5 lb ( 1.4–2.3 kg ) fairly rapidly . |
| 4 | Thank you for the compliment you paid the last edition of Rural Wales . |
| 5 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 6 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 7 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 8 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 9 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 10 | In co-operation with Finsbury Borough Council it established the first ‘ sheltered ’ work-room where ‘ elderly workers could be employed for two hours a day , on small assembling and packing jobs provided by local firms , paying the fair rate for the work completed ’ . |
| 11 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 12 | ( In case you missed the first , it featured a woman brewing up in a Beetle . ) |
| 13 | Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society . |
| 14 | Right , er next evening we settle the thirteenth of September then ? |
| 15 | Both David Whitaker and Verity Lambert had been captivated by Terry Nation 's Dalek story right from the moment they saw the first ‘ treatment ’ ( story idea ) . |
| 16 | Before the meeting they celebrated the 70th birthday of churchwarden Rosemary Paxton and to mark the occasion and her many years of service to the church presented her with a basket of flowers . |
| 17 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 18 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 19 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 20 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
| 21 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 22 | She first met Molly Braithwaite when , as Director of Physical Education and Social Activities at the Central London Polytechnic she opened the first Medau Rhythmical Movement class with Molly as its teacher . |
| 23 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 24 | In assessing how much is spent on domestic output we add the first four items . |
| 25 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 26 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 27 | ‘ The previous season I missed the last 12 games through a hernia operation and Achilles tendon trouble . |
| 28 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 29 | You know at my age you recall the first twenty years far better than the second — or the third . |
| 30 | To her dismay she felt her cheeks grow hot , and by the time she reached the treatment area she found the first of her patients had arrived . |