Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old , old fashion ! ( 2 ) The fashion that came in with our first garments , and will last unchanged until our race has run its course , and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll ( 3 ) . |
| 2 | How cheering it is to read the assurance of that humane , decent and democratic socialist George Orwell that , when down to his last pennies , he would always spend them on tobacco rather than food . |
| 3 | Soon we were down to our last lumps of coal . |
| 4 | It is now clear — and , in view of the final lines of his letter of 2 June , it was sufficiently plain by then — that he was writing under great pressure : which up to his last years was the condition in which he produced most of his work , including some of his best . |
| 5 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 6 | We arrived as keen as a couple of puppies out for their first walkies , full of fun and raring to go ! |
| 7 | Rachel looks back to her first batches of yogurt : Two gallons , then five gallons , then a churnful , sold to local shops . |