Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They travelled to Mundemba , 230 kms west of the airport at Doula , where the WWF Park HQ is situated and where their first task awaited them . |
| 2 | I simply ca n't stand whizz-kid City high-flyers who think of nothing but profit and loss accounts and their latest seven-series BMW and where their next magnum of Bollinger is coming from ! ’ |
| 3 | Smash Hits will want to know about your make-up or your boxer shorts , Melody Maker leans towards aesthetics and primal therapy and the local Argus might just want to know a few biographical details and where your next gig is . |
| 4 | The head of the Soviet space marketing agency Glavkosmos [ see pp. 36636-37 ] , Aleksandr Dunayev , confirmed on May 16 that the shuttle craft Buran [ ibid. ] would not fly for the remainder of the year and that its next mission would be determined by the financial return from potential payloads . |
| 5 | Likewise , various scurrilous attacks were made on Constanze 's honour , suggesting that during her frequent sojourns in Baden she had taken Mozart 's pupil Süssmayr as a lover , and that her last child ( who bore Süssmayr 's Christian names ) was his . |
| 6 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |
| 7 | I suggest that Mr Paul will feel better for having tried this on , and failed , and that his second book will be the one this could have been . |
| 8 | He remarked : ‘ It is a generally received opinion that Turner adopted a peculiar manner , that he exaggerated it more and more , and that his last works are the result of a deranged intellect . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know that Paheri stayed with your first wife , and that your second son was lost when the northern empire collapsed . ’ |
| 10 | In order to do this , we classify the adverts into types " aimed at women " and " aimed at men " ( we could instead have classified them as " television " versus " magazine " or " Italian " versus " British " , etc. ; and if our first attempt to classify gets us nowhere we might try one or more of these alternatives at a later stage ) . |
| 11 | But she also sensed how deep Hugo 's hurt ran and since his first wife 's death was also connected with the man she told herself it would be tasteless to dwell on it . |
| 12 | As many audiences and record collectors already know , he took lessons in conducting so that he might perform the work himself , and since his first concert in New York 's Lincoln Center , he has been invited to perform it with 20 orchestras around the world ( he will be conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall , London in November ) . |
| 13 | According to Scott , Marshall was seventeen times lawfully married , and after his hundredth year was the avowed father of four illegitimate children . |
| 14 | Now he can see a little , and when our first child was born and put into his arms , he was able to see that the boy had inherited his fine large black eyes . |
| 15 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 16 | In June 1962 the NCCL had adopted a resolution from the Connolly Association calling for an inquiry into civil liberties in Northern Ireland ; the NICCL seems to have been set up in response and as its first action , in July , it held a meeting to prepare a memorandum on civil rights to present to Mr Justice Bose of the International Commission of jurists , who was visiting Belfast . |
| 17 | Aenarion suffers a mortal wound and as his last act flies to the Blighted Isle and drives the Sword of Khaine back into the altar . |
| 18 | So , I mean to me , I do n't know whether I 'm right , but that my first thought is that they must be buying it very |
| 19 | Certainly , once committed to a personal code , I can make value as well as factual judgments about your conduct ; but if your first principle is ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ and mine is ‘ Care only for yourself ’ , it seems that there is no objective test by which one of us can convince the other that he is right , as there is for an issue of fact . |
| 20 | But while his second innings batting on Monday looked as though it might save the match , his bowling was desperately short of aggression and conviction . |
| 21 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 22 | it does n't , but when he first sort of put it up , I thought oh crumbs look at that |
| 23 | But when his second wife Wendy became ill , incurring extra expenses , that was cut to a nominal five pence a year . |
| 24 | John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom . |
| 25 | But when my eighth birthday came I found it among my presents , with a little card from my father . ’ |
| 26 | It is hard to see how Darlington 1 could not lose the title , but as their second team so ably demonstrated , it 's a funny old game . |