Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won . |
2 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
3 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
4 | Another famous conventional melody-and-bass , ‘ Ruggiero ’ ( to which originally a stanza from Ariosto 's Orlando furioso , xliv , 61 , was sung ) , also made probably its first appearance in a Spanish source , the Tratado de glosas ( treatise on ornamental variation ) ( Rome , 1553 ) Of Diego Ortiz . |
5 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
6 | Five wins in six games has transformed only their second season outside English football 's basement . |
7 | The master tactician in the whole area was Billy Butlin , who a year before the Rector of Stiffkey 's aborted lecture had opened up his first holiday camp , in Skegness . |
8 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
9 | William Golding , the oldest of the new novelists , has told how his first novel emerged from reflecting , as so many in the 1940s reflected , how readily Hitler and his National Socialists had revived barbarism in our times , and in a modern and advanced industrial state . |
10 | A framed photograph of Sarah , taken on her eighteenth birthday , was on the sideboard . |
11 | It held a head and shoulders snapshot of herself taken on her eighteenth birthday . |
12 | My new mother-in-law , Martha , has worked long and hard for many months to prepare this wonderful occasion , all the little details such as these beautiful flower/cake decorations were planned by her , and my father-in-law has taken on his second mortgage without complaint , like the good-natured man he is . |
13 | She had first had her suspicions years before when he had sent her a photograph taken on his twenty-first birthday . |
14 | He 'd thrown away his last hope , flipped his cards brazenly on the table . |
15 | As yet unsigned , Waterbratz have notched up their third demo ‘ Plastermind ’ , the most aggressive to date . |
16 | But it comes down to , first of all , whether it 's sensible to borrow against assets , and all of us do if we 're lucky enough to own our own homes we tend to have borrowed either our first mortgage or sometimes a second against it , and we make our own judgement , and I see there are some suggestions on how the Government spotted this with regard to schools in suggesting that perhaps schools could raise money by mortgaging their school buildings , of course |
17 | The senator had beaten down my last defences , and now offered me a compromise that might make my surrender to his wishes more acceptable . |
18 | Ferguson 's side have now managed only their eighth League win in 25 attempts this year . |
19 | But most importantly , once the strike had lasted out its first week , a large number of businessmen and middle-class professionals tacitly co-operated with the strikers in return for being able to pursue some of their normal business . |