Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the first few dates when he had kissed and cuddled her and only touched her breasts through her blouse , he had started slipping his hand inside . |
| 2 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 3 | I 'm in the easy stage , the first few days when you just sleep and eat , but quite soon I 'll be in the hell of denial , Mr Breakspear . ’ |
| 4 | In my first six weeks here I had lots of battles — taking on the bigger ones . |
| 5 | Go easy on vigorous exercise , especially during the first three months when you need as much rest as possible or if you are suffering from high blood pressure . |
| 6 | With this , well erm I was er after the first two years when I did n't get a referred lead or recommendation cos I , I had this fear in my mind that if I asked for names , they 'd actually not give them and that they would actually then cancel the policy they 'd taken out with me , I actually thought that |
| 7 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 8 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 9 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 10 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 11 | It is certain the board would prefer to see Mr Weir re-elected as it tries to keep a united front over the next few months when it has to produce new proposals for its future which are acceptable to the Scottish Office and the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 12 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 13 | Erm they are Yorkshire and Humberside which I think is probably related to the strength of orders and demand in that region , East Midlands where they , where it 's sort of consistent with a trend erm in the last few surveys where they say that they have achieved modest price rises erm and where costs have not been falling , erm and also Wales . |
| 14 | So I decided to draw a line across the book and finish the last few pages when I got back . |
| 15 | At the moment the price for North Sea oil is just over $18 , $4 less than average industry forecasts made during the last few years when we were building our portfolio . |
| 16 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously , in the last few years when you look back and see that it had an impact in the field , then it becomes a possibility . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |
| 19 | I 've taken over the last few months when we 've done our sales training here , talking to certainly on advanced sales skills courses and so on , I 've tried to bring an air of realism to their world . |
| 20 | But time and expense means I have to economise and therefore I choose to bait every other day except for the last three days when I will bait on each of them . |
| 21 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 22 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 23 | After an opening 70 , he used his putter only 50 times in the next 36 holes when he shot 65–64 . |
| 24 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 25 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 26 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 27 | You could do your planting there in that last five weeks there you could think about doing |
| 28 | Recalling what he knew of the ardours and achievements of Freeborn 's forty odd years in the Forensic Science Service , the difficult war years , the delayed retirement , the last five years when he had exchanged his directorship for the frustrations of bureaucracy , Dalgliesh said : |
| 29 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 30 | A few moments later he raised his head , to catch a gasp of breath and then to mutter softly in her ear , ‘ There has n't been a day — or night — in the last four years when I have n't missed you . |