Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the arch US soap ( which started in '78 ) reached a peak of public mania , and made the Nine O'Clock News . |
| 2 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 3 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 4 | MADAME PIA DE BRANTES-PEARSON became the first ever client for dear friend Christian Lacroix 's fledgling couture house when she married the impossibly handsome Christopher Pearson in July 1987 wearing Lacroix 's shell pink taffeta meringue . |
| 5 | Dr Who fan Gavin Fuller , 24 , last night became the youngest ever champion of Mastermind . |
| 6 | At 22 , Val became the youngest ever ward sister at London 's Middlesex Hospital . |
| 7 | Conductor and orchestra have had a long and fruitful association — starting in 1963 when David Atherton became the youngest ever conductor at the BBC Proms in London . |
| 8 | Scotland also produced the first ever court case in which a sign language interpreter was used , as well as a remarkable heroine in Charlotte Bain . |
| 9 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 10 | Müller got to the airport and caught the seven o'clock flight home . |
| 11 | The RSPCA says the Bill invoked the biggest ever response from the British public to any of its campaigns , with nearly 20,000 contacts on the special phoneline . |
| 12 | SINGER Melanie O'Reilly drew a standing-room only attendance for the last of the inaugural season of Assembly Direct 's ‘ The Jazz Club ’ promotions . |
| 13 | Seventy years later , the magic mix of high rewards , low outlay and supposed skill in judging football results , continues unchanged ; except , of course , that punters can now win £1.5 million instead of the modest £2 12s that comprised the first ever dividend . |
| 14 | Fortunately , we had no time to feel sorry for ourselves because an early morning ferry journey took us to Nevis where we played the current Leeward Island champions . |
| 15 | Put like that , it seemed a simple enough equation , and at least now , she thought , she could be on her guard , would not let anything get in the way of level-headed logic . |
| 16 | He had seen the boy once or twice since , and he seemed a nice enough lad — a little backward perhaps , but his mother was ashamed of him , and refused to send him to school , perhaps fearing the other children would tease him . |
| 17 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 18 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 19 | It seemed an innocent enough thing to do . |
| 20 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 21 | It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district . |
| 22 | He believed that if the paper made a big enough impact and was raved about by the industry , there would be a rush to save it even if it did n't sell enough to make a profit . |
| 23 | She got a big enough fright when I said : ‘ Excuse me , but your wee laddie is filling your bag with apples that I 'm sure you 'll not be wanting . |
| 24 | Later , she watched the Nine o'clock News , shut the dogs in the kennels . |
| 25 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 26 | Half past four you went home , you were five , six , six o'clock news , you liked to watch the six o'clock news so you sat down , had a bit of light tea , watched the six o'clock news , read the paper , the next big decision you made was whether to watch Coronation Street or not . |
| 27 | This year saw the biggest ever event with fifty six teams competing for the open , ladies ' , youth , junior and new veterans ' titles . |
| 28 | Many reunions of the men who flew to the airfield all over East Anglia , but yesterday saw the biggest ever get-together of combat airmen in Britain . |
| 29 | It looked a reasonable enough distance , so I made my way towards it . |
| 30 | Then for his doctoral thesis ( 1799 ) he gave the first ever proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra ( Section 4.8 ) . |