Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [be] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 2 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 3 | How the mind works is a question we are at last beginning to be able to answer . |
| 4 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 5 | Or you can use the Back Door to hop between two rooms — it takes you back to the room you were in last . |
| 6 | Lyte — whose bicentenary it is on 1st June , this year — was also a fanatical bookman . |
| 7 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |
| 8 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
| 9 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
| 10 | After years of medical doubt it is at last safe to say with conviction that an apple a day along with the other fibre-rich foods you will eat on the F-Plan does indeed keep the doctor away . |
| 11 | To some extent he was at first exonerated from confronting them with this reality by grants of papal crusading tenths , sexennial ones levied on the clergy only , authorized in 1274 and 1291 , and yielding about £20,000 annually . |