Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 14 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 15 | It would obviously be the worst of craftsmanship to score the first four bars as they stand for the violins and viola and at the fifth bar to weaken one of the parts by division . |
| 16 | He predicted Microsoft will sell 1m copies of Windows NT in the first four months after it is released this summer , but that the time between NT 's introduction and its arrival as ‘ the dominant operating system ’ will be as long as three years . |
| 17 | Bill Gates also predicted that Microsoft will sell 1m copies of Windows NT in the first four months after it is released this summer , but that the time between NT 's introduction and its arrival as ‘ the dominant operating system ’ will be as long as three years . |
| 18 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |
| 19 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
| 20 | ‘ I plan to be around over the next few weeks while we get this new image launched , and we expect you to be very visible . |
| 21 | It is intended that this system , which will presumably be the basis for pool allocations for some years to come , will be refined during the next few years as it works out in practice . |
| 22 | The German railway system is facing major structural changes over the next few years as it struggles to rebuild its share of the transport market . |
| 23 | In her second album , which takes a sensibly modest manifesto for its title , the mix is as before ; you will hear all the tracks over the next few months if you follow the charts . |
| 24 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 25 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 26 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 27 | He told delegates : ‘ A lot of good people , good socialists have been deluded into joining the SNP in the last few years because they thought that was the best way to defeat the Tory government . |
| 28 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 29 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 30 | Babies put on a lot of fat in the last few weeks before they are born , so looked a poor little skinny scrap of a thing . |