Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never mentioned receiving anything else from Tristram , with or after his last communication . ’ |
| 2 | To complete this bitter emotional brew there is anxiety : that feeling of dread or agitation on waking up in the mornings ; stammering and blushing ; fear of making another fool of yourself , or of your last mistake being uncovered . |
| 3 | Sometimes the intention to go on the Pill is there , but it is put off until next week , or until their sixteenth birthday . |
| 4 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 5 | Housman then kept his version by him for the rest of his life , not collecting it in A Shropshire Lad , nor in his Last Poems ( 1922 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Then she told me all her hopes and fears and about her First Experience — I 'll say no more than that — but she remembered it vividly . |
| 7 | SIGNED AND ACKNOWLEDGED by the above-named MARIUS STEEN the Testator as and for his LAST WILL in the presence of us both present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses : William Bartlemas Keanophile Kevin O'Rourke Macreadophile |
| 8 | I was grateful for that invisible handclasp and for his last remark . |
| 9 | and for your next trick , Ray . |
| 10 | And for your next complaint ! |
| 11 | and for my next production |
| 12 | And for our next trick — the peat bog nappy ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got Ransom to Venus and through his first conversation with the ‘ Eve ’ of that world : a difficult chapter … |
| 14 | Nine out of ten of the 2/2 Independent Company were from the dry country districts of Western Australia , used to living in the bush , butchering their own meat , and improvising motor repairs — skills they found essential in living off the country in Timor and during their first year or so as an Independent Company stationed 250 miles ( 400km ) south of Darwin in the little town of Katherine with its corrugated buildings , its one hotel and two stores . |
| 15 | The 10p terror is selling two million a week , and during its first month knocked Radio Times and TV Times into second and third places . |
| 16 | In 1878 diplomatic humiliation at the Congress of Berlin threw the government onto the political defensive at home , and during his last years Alexander II was subject to renewed pressure for further change . |
| 17 | This is a fascinating place to work and during my first year here the business has continued to develop . |
| 18 | And during my last month here , I 'm not having anything to do with your plans for Yorick . ’ |
| 19 | And after her first day 's work , which proved her promise that she liked housework , Peggy plied her with what was left of the Christmas fare . |
| 20 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 21 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
| 22 | Tomorrow he takes in a further round of 125cc British championship at Donington Park and after his ninth spot in the Supercup at a wet Oulton last weekend he 'll be one of the leading contenders . |
| 23 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 24 | Only with line B , and with its last word , is it made clear that the image of the whole couplet is of sacrifice ; the burning of line A must be of wood upon the sacrificial altar . |
| 25 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 26 | In 1914 Boccioni wrote : ‘ We were aware of Cubism as it had been publicized in France in articles and books when we came out with the technical manifesto of Futurist painting ( 11 April 1910 ) and with our first exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery ( 6 February 1912 ) . ’ |
| 27 | Then , we 'll send you your first issue of The Red House Post and with your first order we 'll send you Jess the Cat and a Postman Pat book , free . |
| 28 | Definitely it was Eddie 's day and with his fiftieth birthday just past the ‘ auld yin ’ as he described himself also admitted that he was now eligible for the Seniors ' Tour ! |
| 29 | Mr. Dennis is living in the house with one of his children , now aged 18 , and with his second wife . |
| 30 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |