Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As chairman of the recently established development committee of this respected national association I enclose its first appeal brochure , in the hope that your Trustees will support our important apolitical and expanding remit . |
| 2 | Soon after starting my search I found my first good hammered — the Edward half-groat illustrated . |
| 3 | By dissipating this investment she made her first , and her greatest political error . |
| 4 | In Australasia , for instance , the club you play your first game of the season for is your only club for that year and you are not allowed to transfer . |
| 5 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 6 | A year after her marriage she had her second and last child , Frederick William . |
| 7 | And on that first night at home we had our first real sexual encounter , a rather one-sided one , with Dana quite passive . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 9 | I would not rest easy knowing Araminta would see you off without so much as a penny piece the moment I breathe my last . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a good job I saw you first , then ! ’ |
| 11 | That evening I had my first meal since leaving England eighteen hours before ; by the time the pizza , chicken stew and garlicked beans arrived from the kitchen they were cold , but I was so hungry that I had seconds , which amazed Alex . |
| 12 | A Fraud Squad detective said : ‘ I hope for his sake we find him first . ’ |
| 13 | Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai . |
| 14 | By the end of that day I had my first shots of a mink family in action . |
| 15 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 16 | Kylie herself remembers the day she filmed her 542nd episode of Neighbours as being one of the worst of her otherwise happy life . |
| 17 | The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager . |
| 18 | Oh did n't wan na leave home , but anyway she went in and somebody said , oh it 'll be about a week you know my fifth one really . |
| 19 | Last week she celebrated her thirteenth birthday , so now she 's only twelve . |
| 20 | Any trouble she gave her last pilot was more to do with adverse conditions and those middle years of neglect than any flaw in her constitution . |
| 21 | At Vigo we saw our first other light aircraft since leaving France . |
| 22 | During the following week they had their first rifle lesson , bayonet practice and even a session of mapreading . |
| 23 | Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics . |
| 24 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 25 | As a teenager he dropped his first name , Paul , and used only his second name , Jackson . |
| 26 | In the blue light of the morning he breathed his last . |
| 27 | Driving home from the theatre he pondered his next move . |
| 28 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 29 | With poetic licence he described their first meeting : |
| 30 | With his support and encouragement I took my first somewhat unsteady steps towards the production of a unit in financial accounting . |