Example sentences of "of [pron] [num ord] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reminds me of my first branch chair , an ex-miner , who used to give me a lift home in his Jag . |
| 2 | Across the east coast bays of Auckland , the subject of my first New Zealand paintings , wide expanses of shimmering sea change colour beneath the sky , reflecting in turn crimson , purple , turquoise , emerald green and many shades of blue . |
| 3 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 4 | And from this kernel notion I developed the plot of my first Inspector Ghote novel called — wait for it — The Perfect Murder . |
| 5 | As it turned out that was the end of my first World Championship . |
| 6 | With two of my first graduate students to work on the chick , I went on to explore some of the more detailed biochemistry of these changes . |
| 7 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd like it to be in memory of my second cousin Russell too , because he died from cystic fibrosis as well . ’ |
| 9 | The autumn of my second university year then . |
| 10 | What would the photos of my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary have revealed ? |
| 11 | By the end of the century things had at last begun to change : in 1899 Primitive Methodists agreed a minimum of £100 while Congregationalists and Baptists set aside part of their Twentieth Century Funds for salaries . |
| 12 | His wife and children face being turned out of their 17th century farmhouse after 12 years there . |
| 13 | As part of their 25th Anniversary celebrations the S.V.R. staged a gala steam weekend on 21-22nd September 1990 . |
| 14 | By 1982 the dean was proposing introducing a ‘ demonstration project ’ which motivated students could enter ( with no specific academic prerequisites ) at the end of their second college year . |
| 15 | Embryos enter the uterus and start to cavitate ( form a blastocoel ) at about 94 h post-hCG when they contain approximately 32 cells ( i.e. when most of the cells have reached the end of their fifth cell cycle , Table 1 ) . |
| 16 | He was murdered one day after he told Lebanese , on the eve of their 46th independence anniversary , that their divided country was close to peace . |
| 17 | Notwithstanding the reservations of Glynn and Oxborrow it is clear that population growth rates were less than one third of their nineteenth century peaks and the fact is that there was a substantial loss of population from the old industrial areas to the new ones . |
| 18 | Atherton and DeFreitas failed to make the most of their first Test selection and face a nervous wait until Gooch 's side for Lord 's is named on Sunday . |
| 19 | ALLAN DONALD and Brett Schultz yesterday tore through India 's batting to leave South Africa on the brink of their first Test victory for 22 years . |
| 20 | So the World Championships starting at Saalbach on 22 January looked certain to feed the ambitions of champions like Tomba and Kronberger , in search of their first gold medal , and newcomers getting a taste of success in the World Cup . |
| 21 | Llanelli 's Colin Stephens takes over the key outside half position from the injured Neil Jenkins for Wales B , while injury-hit Australia call on seven of their first choice pack . |
| 22 | They may pay a high price for their few years of glory with injury problems in later life and will probably never enjoy the relative prosperity of their first working years again . |
| 23 | New Zealand were within 33 runs of their first home Test victory in three years at close of play on the fourth day against Australia in Auckland . |
| 24 | The home side 's PGL senior inter-association skip Seamus Elliman was beaten 31–12 by Mansell Montgomery which dashed Falls ' hopes of their first home win since the opening game of the league . |
| 25 | The next step was to explain the programme to health visitors , giving them the material Better Shoe public relations team wished them to place with the new mother at the time of their first home visit . |
| 26 | Five weeks from the end of the cricket season ; Warwickshire may be on the verge of their first County Championship title for eighteen years . |
| 27 | HADLEIGH will face a tough task with several of their first team players missing for their clash with Stowmarket tomorrow . |
| 28 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 29 | THE POGUES celebrate the recent completion of their first world tour accompanied by Joe Strummer , with the release of a new single . |
| 30 | They were like a couple of newly-weds , fondly excited by each other 's company , by the experience of their first dinner party . |