Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 2 | Should she try and get him back again or buy a newspaper first and try to find out what in the world he had been talking about ? |
| 3 | Senior members of both firms refused to confirm or deny the story last night . |
| 4 | Lendl , who won his third successive Open title in 1987 , retired against Australian qualifier Neil Borwick while trailing 4-6 6-4 3-1 and became the record fifth men 's seed to lose in the first round this year . |
| 5 | The man alighted and checked the street first , his hand deep in his pocket , before finally opening the door . |
| 6 | The secretary did as instructed and passed the test first time . |
| 7 | and got the cup last year . |
| 8 | Musgrave Park is the regional centre for orthopaedic surgery and has a reputation second to none for its geriatric work . |
| 9 | The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him . |
| 10 | He bought his drink and found a seat next to a wizened little man in a seaman 's jersey that was several sizes too big for him . |
| 11 | He said nothing for a minute or two and told the person next to him that he was having a bad dream when the stranger woke him up . |
| 12 | Unlike the head-jutting ectothermic desert lizard , who warms his head first , the hibernating homeotherms would shiver and warm the heart first , then pass warm blood outwards to the body and brain . |
| 13 | Could you afford five hundred pound to go and watch a match next year ? |
| 14 | A third-minute try and conversion by ex-All Black Frano Botica seemed par for the course as Wigan , unbeaten by any British club in 16 outings and seeking a record fourth consecutive Championship , opened in fine style . |
| 15 | we did n't , we , we went in there and played a game last week before we , we played a game |
| 16 | Lift the telephone and hold the microphone next to the telephone earpiece . |
| 17 | Ted convinced himself that the sounds came from the birds nesting in the eaves or the rafters and banged the walls nth a brush . |
| 18 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
| 19 | FoE blames the rise of the supermarket for the decline in the use of the refillable bottle , and cites a survey last year which showed that 84 per cent of shoppers would be prepared to return containers to retailers if supermarkets set up a suitable system . |
| 20 | She had won two of her six races as a two-year-old and finished a neck second ( at 33–1 ) to Desirable in the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket , the most important race for two-year-old fillies run in Britain . |
| 21 | I have a memory of walking up the street in this small farm town in up-state New York and buying The Monkees first record when I was five or six years old . |
| 22 | She moved to Bradford in 1880 , and developed the principles first delivered in a series of lectures in 1885–6 and expounded in Home Education ( 1886 ) . |
| 23 | CATHERINE Mind and ring the bell next time ! |
| 24 | Try and feed the fish first thing in the morning and around midday , not in the evening . |
| 25 | Rival Cyndi Lauper stepped in to sing a duet for a Christmas album and recorded the track first time with no rehearsal . |
| 26 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 27 | Ampofo , 25 , won and lost the title last year . |
| 28 | He slotted himself in behind the steering-wheel , and started the car first time . |
| 29 | If you are not a qualifier for the additional £50,000 do n't worry , this does not affect your eligibility to enter the ‘ Ultimate ’ Prize Draw and win the £50,000 first prize or one of over a thousand other prizes . |
| 30 | If you are not a qualifier for the additional £50,000 , do n't worry , this does not affect your eligibility to enter the Ultimate Prize Draw and win the £50,000 first prize or one of over a thousand other prizes . |