Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 2 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 3 | Ropati pounced for his 13th try of the season nine minutes later and second rower Sonny Nickle scored in the 79th minute to ensure Saints share the League lead with Wigan . |
| 4 | Slaven pounced for his 14th goal of the season , his first since his knee operation , in front of Boro 's jubilant fans . |
| 5 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 6 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
| 7 | There was an ‘ Oof ! ’ of expelled air as the man fell to his knees , his broad shoulders heaving as he strained for his next breath . |
| 8 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 9 | The next day we landed at Mackay and re-fuelled for our last leg . |
| 10 | Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro . |
| 11 | Then the Queen headed for her next destination . |
| 12 | When , as they moved towards their first coupling , ‘ it was as if the whole of myself , body and spirit , even parts of me I never knew existed , came alive at his touch ’ ? |
| 13 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 14 | Earlier Sabatini , the top seed , moved into her fourth final of the year with a 6–3 , 6–2 victory against Brenda Schultz , of Holland , while Martinez , the fifth seed , beat compatriot Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6–4 , 7–5 . |
| 15 | Last year we moved into our first flat . |
| 16 | The problems with the gearboxes of the 141s , 142s and 143s were well publicised as the 1980s drew into their second half . |
| 17 | ‘ He came over and trained with us last week and he was looking fit . |
| 18 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |
| 19 | Lonely and feeling sorry for herself , she regularly wandered from her second floor apartment to the kitchens to chat to the staff . |
| 20 | The following extract is taken from this last chapter , and elaborates on some of the problems we mentioned in our first chapter , ( pp 7–8 ) . |
| 21 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 22 | Leicester seemed out of it but remarkably seconds before the break Lee Philpott crossed from the left and found stand-in striker Steve Walsh who headed in his 7th goal in as many games since moving up front . |
| 23 | I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] . |
| 24 | The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly . |
| 25 | He coined the Latin phrase , which the Queen used in her 40th anniversary speech at the Guildhall , in a letter to her expressing sympathy over the Windsor Castle fire . |
| 26 | Tacit consent was the tactic which Locke used in his Second Treatise to escape from the dilemma of reconciling his basic principle — " The Liberty of Man , in Society , is to be under no other Legislative Power , but that established , by consent , in the Commonwealth … " ( 22 , p. 301 ) — with the desirability of a stable and durable system of government which would not have to be submitted to the people for constant re-endorsement . |
| 27 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 28 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 29 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 30 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |