Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 2 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 3 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 4 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 5 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 6 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 7 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |
| 8 | I left my sack for a third time clipped to Sal and relished the cool caress of wind around my back as I finally found out how to enjoy myself on the steep granite of the ridge . |
| 9 | ‘ He smelt the cigarette smoke and I was fired , typical of my luck during the first 30 years of my life , ’ recalls Caine , 59 . |
| 10 | I wonder if I could offer you a cup of coffee in my department within the next couple of minutes ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 12 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 13 | He admitted : ‘ There was doubt in my mind after the third round and I would have preferred to win by going head to head with Nick Price . |
| 14 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 15 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 16 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 17 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 18 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 19 | I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects . |
| 20 | ‘ It was always my intention after the first two years of trying things out to get a more stable situation after the European Championships . |
| 21 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 22 | During my annual medical check-up in 1987 , Dr Dingle discovered a blood irregularity , but as I was fighting fit he said it was probably just a virus and I was to forget about it during my impending holiday and to see him on my return for a second blood test . |
| 23 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |
| 24 | My result in the afternoon race was the worst of the event as I dwelt over my fate up the first beat . |
| 25 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 26 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 27 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 28 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 29 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 30 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |