Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the little white house in the almond and lemon country of South-Eastern Spain where I stayed last summer every midday meal started with the tomato and onion salad . |
| 2 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 3 | Like the one at that farm where we stayed last summer . ’ |
| 4 | Raised on the Wyndford housing scheme , where he lived next door to the Celtic , Dundee and Partick Thistle player Jim Duffy , Nicholas was a pupil at St Columba of Iona , a local catholic school . |
| 5 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 6 | Lucente quit IBM for the number two post at Northern Telecom Ltd , where he resigned last month . |
| 7 | He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he obtained first classes in each part of the classical tripos ( 1896 and 1897 ) . |
| 8 | He was educated at Nottingham High School , Rugby School , and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained first classes in both parts of the classical tripos ( 1908 and 1909 ) , in part ii specializing in archaeology , and won several classical prizes . |
| 9 | He was educated at Marlborough and at New College , Oxford , where he obtained second classes in classical honour moderations ( 1895 ) and literae humaniores ( 1897 ) . |
| 10 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |
| 12 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 13 | Better tonight than I did last night . |
| 14 | This created a conundrum for the label , resolved with the following decision : ‘ You can suffer from Number One-itis , ’ reckons Andy , ‘ which is always trying to get to Number One or go one better than you managed last time . |
| 15 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 16 | Right , so you go first Phil ! |
| 17 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 18 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 19 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
| 20 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 21 | yeah , so we said next time we have anything we 'll take it to across the |
| 22 | This year we thought it right to reserve our judgment er , until the end of the year so we matched last year 's interim . |
| 23 | We 'll sort that out once we clinch second division safety . |
| 24 | ‘ BORVEL NEM AKT ; the words meant no more now than they had last night , and the feather looked simply ordinary . |
| 25 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 26 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 27 | And , having been presented with the customary bottle of champagne by the Wincanton executive , Scudamore added that he felt a lot less pressure than he had last season . |
| 28 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 29 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 30 | It is certainly not strong enough to extract unconditional aid from the developed nations , habitually suspicious of what happens to their money once it reaches Third World administrations . |