Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 3 | Donna gave me a last dazzling smile , then , apparently impervious to McIllvanney 's evil-tempered scorn , clicked away on her ridiculously high heels . |
| 4 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 5 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 6 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 7 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 8 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 9 | Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition ; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas , since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development . |
| 10 | Il Moro won , becoming the first challenger to claim a finals place , while Nippon 's loss to New Zealand made her the first to be eliminated . |
| 11 | As Ashley poured herself a second cup of rich dark coffee at a side-table , she frowned again . |
| 12 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |