Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We chose the southern route for our cruise and so our first port of call was the beautiful bay of Les Saintes . |
| 2 | It will be Leeds ' first home game since November 1 and only their fifth in the League at Headingley this season . |
| 3 | Sri Lanka ended up needing 140 to record their first Test win over England and only their fourth success in 43 Tests since they joined the big league in 1982 . |
| 4 | This was his fourth patrol of the day and only his first kill of the week . |
| 5 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 6 | In 1919 Lawrence had already written to , of all people , Curzon , confiding that his ‘ own ambition ’ was that the Arabs ‘ should be our first brown dominion and not our last brown colony ’ . |
| 7 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 8 | Relapse of florid symptoms and possibly their first onset can be precipitated by stressful events . |
| 9 | Five days after his coronation in 1424 , James I called his first parliament there , and later his third one . |
| 10 | It had been my first venture into the hotel business and probably my last — I take my hat off to anyone who makes it work . |
| 11 | One-Dimensional Chess had n't been all that difficult once they worked out the rules , and now their first answer was being carried or transmitted or processed-whatever-by the small attendant with the little red boots . |
| 12 | He was himself forced to remain in England to defend his interests and never settled in his colony ; he appointed first his brother Leonard [ q.v. ] and then his second son Charles to the post of governor . |
| 13 | Yeah , and then his next go starts on that . |
| 14 | You talk about the classless society and then his next step is to make Dennis Thatcher a Baronet , that , if I may say , is a media non-sequitur if ever I if ever I heard it . |
| 15 | Other young people vote with their feet and leave early by failing to turn up during their last year , and sometimes their last two years at school . |
| 16 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 17 | Suppose you tell me exactly where and how you last saw him . ’ |
| 18 | Neither Maurice Hasson nor Christian Ivaldi are new to the catalogue , and indeed I first came across their names , though separately , in the 1970s . |
| 19 | The mystery is why they let Quinn live , and why they first released the boy and then killed him . |
| 20 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |
| 21 | Surveyors pay heavy premiums for their ‘ professional indemnity ’ insurance and therefore their first thought when writing their report is their own protection from litigation . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , a rather upsetting aspect to the revolutionary planet Uranus , which takes place on 30 March , seems likely to bring a disagreement over finances to a head — and therefore your first priority this April must be to salvage what you can from a rather costly alliance . |