Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I revise my decision to abandon my first lesson and ask Jack McKellar if any drivers are particularly to blame — business people , lorry drivers or journalists with three children ? |
| 2 | I started work at 16 , married a wonderful man at 20 and left my job to have my first child at 21 . |
| 3 | When I was about nine years old , my father had his first car . |
| 4 | Charles , 27 , said : ‘ When my father had his first stroke , everything was tried as it was very likely he was going to die . |
| 5 | WHEN my grandmother celebrated her 90th birthday at Drumlanrig Castle in the autumn of 1990 , every one of her descendants was present . |
| 6 | I was around 20 years old when my mother purchased our first car . |
| 7 | Rob Wilson 's courtesy and kindness is legendary and many years ago he indirectly helped my mother to hook her first salmon . |
| 8 | A slogan above said ominously : ‘ My mother killed my last boyfriend . ’ |
| 9 | Last week 's leaders Tynemouth were knocked off their pedestal losing their first game of the season . |
| 10 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 11 | The woman with the shopping basket cuddled on her lap made her fifth attempt upon Rachaela . |
| 12 | Her son was married , her daughter-in-law expecting their first baby and she did n't know what to say next . |
| 13 | On her left sat her second son , Henry George Farrier , twenty-eight , a newly fledged parson of the Church of England . |
| 14 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |
| 15 | The lanky Moody rode his luck to score his second century at the highest level . |
| 16 | SCOTLAND captain David Sole has given short shrift to anyone who has blamed Martin Bayfield and Tim Rodber for the drastic change in Scottish scrummaging fortunes between the World Cup semi-final and the Five Nations opener , when his side scored their first pushover try against England for donkey 's years , despite losing by a record score . |
| 17 | This brought the West Indian 's aggregate for the two matches to 181 without being dismissed and it enabled his side to seal their second impressive nine-wicket win . |
| 18 | STEVE DAVIS has been practising six hours a day during the build-up to the Embassy World championship , such is his determination to win his seventh title . |
| 19 | Bush too was being realistic when he made his move to stage her first live concerts . |
| 20 | Naas Botha and his team play their first international in England since 1969 — and it could be their last in a long while . |
| 21 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 22 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |
| 23 | After winning his first four contests , he was outpointed , but strengthened his resolve winning his next nine , eight inside the distance , including an eight-rounds victory for the British light-middleweight title . |
| 24 | At the beginning of January Frank travelled to England with his father to start his first term at Rowden . |
| 25 | He spent the last five months of his life writing his fourth novel , La Soiree a Somosierra , and reflecting on the outcome of his departure from the party , only vaguely aware of the incipient communist campaign to blacken his name . |
| 26 | A FORMER schoolteacher who decided to turn his back on his profession to follow his first love of painting is the latest winner of the Menter y Mis ( Venture of the Month ) award . |
| 27 | Instead , he left behind a potent series of myths — the rock ‘ n ’ roll rebel , the sensitive poet , the sexual athlete , the Lizard King — and a body of work that would influence musicians who had n't even been born when their hero was buried and his gravestone gained its first layer of graffiti in Pére Lachaise cemetery . |
| 28 | ‘ Jaz ’ laughed and ‘ accidentally ’ trod on my foot as he made his way to take his first throw . |
| 29 | On 28th September 1992 your Committee held its first meeting since the Museum opened in July . |
| 30 | But only use the name you are entitled to use ( ie say ‘ Mr Smith ’ not ‘ Bert ’ — even if your boss uses his first name ) . |