Example sentences of "[num ord] [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sunday 6th we have a free day — a much needed respite to enable us to prepare some of our work for the next week — but in the evening we went to dinner with from the embassy , as well as with two senior visitors from London , one from the British Council ( , who is responsible for all Chinese visits ) and one from the Foreign Office . |
| 2 | And if you win , you come second or third or fourth you get a big , you know them cameras , look like them . |
| 3 | Into the first I put the rich young owner 's suit , cashmere pullover and showy shirts and into the second the new younger-looking clothes for off-duty Tommy , jeans , sweatshirts , woolly hat and trainers . |
| 4 | First I stack the clean plates in the dishwasher , which works okay , I guess , like all my other labour-saving devices , until some fat bastard shows up in his jumpsuit and traumatizes them with his tools . |
| 5 | Now to place this manor and house , first I believe the only place this could have been is Upper Haillng , and the house is now what is known as Court Farm , the present residence of Mr Peter Lingham . |
| 6 | First you introduce a small quantity of fuel to the engine through the booster pump , then you start the whole thing burning and turning with the Start button . |
| 7 | First you have a unique product which has a highly profitable phase , but this frequently comes to an abrupt stop . |
| 8 | For prospective fathers in search of a guaranteed macho activity which also merits innumerable brownie points , Odent says water birth are the remedy : ‘ First you build the birthing pool , then you fill it , then it 's almost bound to go wrong . ’ |
| 9 | First we have no intuitive grasp of the immensities of time available for evolutionary change . |
| 10 | First we need a proper idea of what it is we are seeking to explain . |
| 11 | First we consider the different kinds of taxes through which the government can raise revenue . |
| 12 | He , like many others , was to learn the truth of the Talmud that , ‘ our passions are like travellers : at first they make a brief stay ; then they are like guests , who visit often ; and then they turn into tyrants , who hold us in their power . ’ |
| 13 | First they try the very top of the Empire State Building , then the deck of an eighteenth-century clipper — all to no avail . |
| 14 | First they begin a political offensive , propagandising widely and saying that the Cuban people oppose Communism … |
| 15 | Next I mention the only Member of Parliament at the time of writing to have resigned from a Government position as parliamentary private Secretary over the Maastricht issue , Roger Knapman , Member for Stroud . |
| 16 | At last I see a surrealist vase in slime green with two necks . |
| 17 | Next you face the laborious business of cooling , of reassembly , of storage , before the return of these foodstuffs to the Superette , where , admittedly , I am promptly and generously reimbursed for my pains . |
| 18 | No , it was the last you know the dramatic end that everybody who 's been waiting for watching that film from seven o'clock till |
| 19 | Next we get the usual nonsense : wordless dialogue , optical semaphoring , gauche laughter , ear-splitting silence . |
| 20 | Now at last we see the true face of the Labour party on inward investment . |
| 21 | At last we see the whole shape of his carnality ; he is ambi-sexual , omni-experienced . |