Example sentences of "[pos pn] [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 2 | In my next two chapters I shall attempt to compare the official curriculum in African primary schools with actual curriculum practice , and thus to contrast what official plans say should happen in schools with the realities of what actual schools and real teachers plan and provide . |
| 3 | Also , in their first 10 games they had 26 points , i.e. one more point than this season but still only 6 points ahead of us ) . |
| 4 | For a start , the weather was atrocious when they most needed to acclimatize , and in their first seven weeks they had only seventeen days of cricket . |
| 5 | HO Circular ( 194/78 ) describing British and American research literature on policing is another typically apologetic , anti-intellectual document , for within its first few paragraphs it admits : |
| 6 | By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced . |
| 7 | Lewis — some called him ‘ The Lip ’ — was defending the title he had won in Helsinki in 1983 Johnson had first beaten him in 1985 and of their last five encounters he had won four . |
| 8 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 9 | In his first few years he did more to establish the Hellenism of Smirke and Wilkins as ‘ the modern style of architecture ’ in Scotland than anyone else . |
| 10 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 11 | Well I I thought after your first two clues it was Green 's Windmill . |
| 12 | as Cybil mentioned you know I mean if if we want to criticise your first ten words it comes a bit hard up to five thousand you know . |
| 13 | And it 's also you know your first few days you sort of you , you become a leech do n't you to the person that you know , you know the person sitting next to you . |
| 14 | Friday night 's goalscorer , Chris Malkin , added : ‘ We are disappointed because in our last two matches we 've taken one point , when we 've probably deserved six . |
| 15 | ‘ If we play like that in our last four games we will not go down . ’ |
| 16 | Erm our last few days we were meant to see Everest and the beautiful Himalayas but the monsoon did n't er finish so were n't ab able to see that but we understood they were there somewhere . |