Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [be] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 2 | He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality . |
| 3 | After the war she was the first woman to hold a Commercial Pilots Licence , although she had difficulty finding a job . |
| 4 | After the war she was the first woman to hold a Commercial Pilots Licence , although she had difficulty finding a job . |
| 5 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |
| 6 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 7 | Since joining INCUBUS it was the first time he 'd come across men who carried guns — outside the States . |
| 8 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 9 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 10 | Erm I 've a feeling it 's the eighteenth . |
| 11 | when there 's any recession they 're the first ones to lose |
| 12 | However , as usual there is a sting in the tail and in this case it is the fourth characteristic , that of differentiation , which gives cause for concern . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , anyhow , ’ she went on , as she fumbled for the matches and lit the gas lights , ‘ we 'll have Christmas together in peace , and — and in case it 's the last we have for some time , we 'll make it as nice as possible . |
| 14 | Even in that case it was the third complaint from a woman who had had her previous two met . |
| 15 | I mean the book itself is just published last , er Thursday I believe it was , and er so it was up to date , is up to date until the summer , which is you know more up to date than any other book , so it 's got things like : Greta Garbo dying , and Princess Eugenie being born and Nelson Mandela being free , and of course it 's the first encyclopaedia to have all the details of nineteen eighty nine , the , the upheaval in , in Europe , all the political changes and whatever . |
| 16 | ‘ Yeah , out he gets , pushes and of course it 's the last he sees of his stuff . ’ |
| 17 | And of course it was the first thing Hepzibah said , turning pink and steamy from the stove and smiling as if it were the most natural thing in the world that Carrie and Nick should appear in her kitchen at precisely this minute . |
| 18 | Tranmere now were not only confident but cocky , and as Spurs deteriorated into a formation as ragged as a returning Battle of Britain squadron it was the Third Division side who found space and time . |
| 19 | With the independent network still smarting over BSkyB 's controversial £304 million capture of coverage of the new Premier League it was a second severe setback in just over a week . |
| 20 | Five hundred thousand of our members took part in that particular ballot four hundred and fifty thousand of our members decided that they would support a political fund it was the first awakening , in my opinion , since nineteen forty five of the political views of ordinary trade union members . |
| 21 | Over the first two days most of the home points had been garnered by the Big Four comprising Seve Ballesteros , Jose Maria Olazabal , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam but in the end it was the third Spaniard and the middle-aged Irishman who rose to the occasion when their contribution was needed most . |
| 22 | We think it was going to be the seventh and the eighth and the ninth , and they 've told Newcastle City it 's the ninth , but she was meant to confirmed last Wednesday , and she 's still not . |
| 23 | Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so . |
| 24 | No doubt we were the next day . |
| 25 | Dad it 's the tenth of |
| 26 | And I 've no doubt it 's the last we 'll be seeing till Thursday . ’ |
| 27 | For the tutor it is the seventh conversation about The Prelude he or she has had that week . |
| 28 | Last year it was the 19th century novel and its legacy , now it 's Shakespeare . |
| 29 | For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing . |
| 30 | This weekend it 's the 60th anniversary of the Chancellor coming to power . |