Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are synovial joints between the fifth to eighth costal cartilages and it is possible that in some of the patients in this series the pain was a result of inflammation in one of these joints . |
| 2 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
| 3 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 4 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 5 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 6 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |
| 7 | Malcolm Cole 's programme notes do n't specify the circumstances of the ‘ grim struggle for survival which left serious composition out of the question ’ for the first few years after he had settled in the United States in 1939 , but , whatever they were , they informed his music with an intensity that the exuberance of his early style did n't find much room for . |
| 8 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 9 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 10 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 11 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 12 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |
| 13 | His son , Li Yuan , had seen it all five years before , in those first few days after he had been told the secret of their world — the Great Lie upon which everything was built . |
| 14 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 15 | Today , the first visible signs that it 's day is done . |
| 16 | It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’ |
| 17 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 18 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 19 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 20 | Cos I had him , I just , I just had him like that first sixteen points and we could n't play properly cos no one won . |
| 21 | I 'm glad to hear that , Wilko has proved during his first 3 years that he is capable of getting the best out of players individually and as a team . |
| 22 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 23 | Under a scheme introduced at Shell Chemicals in February last year women receive six months ' maternity pay , half at the beginning of their leave and the rest paid in stages during the first nine months after they return to work . |
| 24 | The exertions of the first five miles when he had thought the Dragoons might burst from behind every hedgerow or farmhouse had exhausted both the Major and his horse , so once he felt safe he sensibly slowed to a contemplative and restoring walk . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 26 | The outgoing head of state , Flt. -Lt. ( retd ) Jerry Rawlings , won 58.3 per cent of votes cast on Nov. 3 , in the first presidential elections since he seized power in a military coup in 1981 , according to official results announced in Accra on Nov. 6 . |
| 27 | ‘ We had a bad time for the first 250 metres and they did n't know where we were but our cox Garry Herbert was brilliant . |
| 28 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 29 | well mines the first two weeks and I 'm keeping them off those two days that they 're supposed to be at school |
| 30 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |