Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie had slept well last night : there had been no dreams of violence . |
| 2 | And he added Mr Dobson had returned just last week from a working trip to Turkey . |
| 3 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 4 | Overcome by the romance of the setting , she did what she had always promised herself she would not , until Nicky had done so first . |
| 5 | It was about sex — not about sexual politics — but another show was about to go on the road , and Oz had got there first . |
| 6 | He and Sir Brian had gone in first to stand shoulder to shoulder , their comrades around them , a fighting circle of steel slowly edging into the city . |
| 7 | Una had arrived home first , followed by Luke and Sonny . |
| 8 | Speaking of which , did anyone read how Chapman got sent off last night ? |
| 9 | Somehow , Kapitan Weber had got there first . |
| 10 | Look at all these people , taking and taking though Jim had said proudly last night that now he would contribute properly ; he would pay his way , Alice need n't think that he would n't . |
| 11 | One morning Jonquil had got there first . |
| 12 | As Ben had pointed out last night , his Annie was scurrying between the looms when she was seven , and barefoot . |
| 13 | Demyonov had gone home last week in an elaborate casket dark inside the cargo hold of a Tupolev airliner . |
| 14 | Perhaps from her sister , because she knew you and Clare had dined there last year , shortly before … . ’ |