Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few months horrified her . |
| 2 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 3 | Fortunately , Kathleen Kenyon took pottery a little more seriously than her mentor , and her Jewry Wall report ( 1948 ) is one of the first serious efforts to use it on a large scale to date the main sequences . |
| 4 | The first thirteen babies to claim them have won the first of their competitions . |
| 5 | Despite such contradictions the unanimity of the manuscripts in the preservation of the first sixty-five titles makes it clear that these did constitute a code , and it seems probable that other surviving legislation postdates this compilation , and was , at times , intended to complement it . |
| 6 | Flip through the wacky but informative manual ( which casts you as a movie director ) and you 'll find that the first three programs let you construct 20-frame icon-sized movies . |
| 7 | We normally on the first three months do it on a group basis |
| 8 | But Macoun was there during an unusually wet season , and when the first white settlers arrived they faced immense hardship until they developed techniques for coping with this semi-arid environment . |
| 9 | Only twice in their first 57 appearances did they take the stage without him . |
| 10 | The first two hours knock us into shape , however , as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri . |
| 11 | The top-rope on the first two pitches made them possible , and then we worked upwards , forcing tired bodies to perform and tired minds to keep them safe . |
| 12 | The first two shots took him in the shoulder and the left chest . |
| 13 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 14 | How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her . |
| 15 | The next few pages tell you everything you 'll ever need to know about mortgages . |
| 16 | It 's just that what we 're going to be doing for the next few weeks means you 're going to have to be very open with me , and Quincx to a degree . |
| 17 | ‘ The lack of an off-the-peg solution means there is going to have to be an intensive research effort over the next few years involving us , the Railway Technical Centre at Derby and the railway supply industry . ’ |
| 18 | The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other . |
| 19 | It has a majority of just 16 in the 630-seat lower house but Mr Amato is expected to call a fresh confidence vote in the next few days to prove he still has parliamentary approval . |
| 20 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 21 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 22 | It seems clear that several million voters have still not made up their minds , and there is therefore an added incentive in the last few days to influence them . |
| 23 | Only over the last few months had she noticed the subtle swing of attention away from her towards medical students , or the younger female doctors . |
| 24 | The tournament proved to be Gascoigne 's finest hour … he became a superstar overnight … and Jane spent the next 2 years helping him arrange a multi million pound transfer to the Rome club Lazio . |
| 25 | It was also planned to extensively landscape the road with tree planting over the next 12 months to make it blend in with the surrounding area . |
| 26 | I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself . |
| 27 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 28 | ‘ Only in the last three years did it get in the way of anything and I was n't able to do any bounding ( a vital exercise in training ) or , in the end , any high jumping . ’ |
| 29 | Yet the skill it has shown in the last three weeks suggests it is well equipped for the tricky tasks ahead . |
| 30 | • only 8% of women who had children in the last 5 years said they would prefer a hospital consultant to provide their antenatal care . |