Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 2 | With the dress ordered , church and reception booked , invitations sent and wedding lists prepared probably the last thing on your mind is YOU ! |
| 3 | They spend so much time immersed in unglamorous stuff — transient and trivial details that vanish and reappear to be done again the next moment . |
| 4 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 5 | The seas swamped their boats , and all three boatcrews perished in the waters , their lifeless bodies being washed ashore the next morning . |
| 6 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 7 | Ex-Royal Marine Russell Powell , 23 , is accused under a 19th Century law of making a 150ft drop from the cathedral 's Whispering Gallery into the nave . |
| 8 | So if erm , if they 're not used , they 've got to be thrown away , they ca n't be sort of used again the next day , the veg . |
| 9 | ‘ All I will say is that you could wake up one day and be told a threat had been lifted , and it could be enforced again the next day . |
| 10 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 11 | Eight conspiracy theories about the killing are given considerable space in a museum housed on the sixth floor of the School Book Depository , called simply The Sixth Floor . |
| 12 | It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular . |
| 13 | The clash marked only the second occasion in 70 years on which police had opened fire on a white crowd . |
| 14 | Now six months behind in getting version one out the door , SAG has just pulled together the first snapshot of technologies which the specification will use . |
| 15 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 16 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 17 | Iain 's body was found later the next day . |
| 18 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 19 | David and wife Catherine had scraped together every last penny to ensure their sons , Stuart , Richard , baby Thomas and Mark , ( from left in picture ) would have the happiest Christmas possible . |
| 20 | The stage-curtains folded away the first half of the show to the accompaniment of enthusiastic applause . |
| 21 | The Flow Country of Caithness and Sunderland and the Rhinns of Islay are likely to the first of 1,300 Scottish SSSIs to be reviewed under a last minute amendment to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill . |
| 22 | The original design , held over to eke out what it can during the transition , will be scrapped once the second design comes on-line . |
| 23 | Some would have said that he had not taken even the first step , since he had been invested irregularly with his pastoral staff by the king . |
| 24 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |
| 25 | And then Adam had read aloud the first definition : |