Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thank you for the compliment you paid the last edition of Rural Wales . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 5 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | ( In case you missed the first , it featured a woman brewing up in a Beetle . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 12 | .. 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 . |
| 13 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 14 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
| 15 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The previous season I missed the last 12 games through a hernia operation and Achilles tendon trouble . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | that was my twenty first birthday we bought that on , so that was before Gary was born and er , that had black screw on legs as well , the televisions had black screw , oh we did n't have a television we had a second hand television about a year after we were married and I remember Coronation Street starting , that started about when we got married . |
| 22 | ‘ Last month we had a 10th birthday party for her and she invited nine friends , which she seemed to enjoy very much . |
| 23 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 24 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 25 | The following month he reached the third round of the glitzy Paris tournament and he had cracked it . |
| 26 | While the Scot won the opening frame he lost the next three , but his highest break of the match , 74 , suggested Hallett had a problem on his hands . |
| 27 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 28 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 29 | On the bridge he saw the third officer raise his hand to his cap in a debonair salute , and she waved gaily back . |
| 30 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |