Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had expected you to spend your first week just finding your feet . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps Monica Seles wakened them with her grunting : did you know she fakes her first service ? = = At eight on the Saturday morning , I piled two disco-bleared daughters , a pick shovel and lump hammer into the car and drove through the drizzle to Lou 's home base of Barkway — a village which ca n't help being close to Royston , the place where caffs shut in the lunch hour . |
| 3 | How many people do you know who failed their first driving test ? |
| 4 | ‘ How d' you like your first day at work , then ? ’ |
| 5 | Nothing was heard from him after he faxed a message home giving arrangements for his mother to meet him to celebrate her 40th birthday . |
| 6 | One of her tutors , Jeanette Byrne , who helped her buy her first guitar , invited her to sing the lead in a choir of girls from Grianan at her wedding . |
| 7 | Blackburn 's Kevin Moran replaces him to win his 68th cap and striker Tony Cascarino is almost certain to be on the substitutes ' bench after also testing an injured hamstring this afternoon . |
| 8 | Brian Ashmore says he suffered his first heart attack thirteen years ago and he 's been back into the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon five times since with related problems . |
| 9 | It was n't a fortune but was enough to help me buy my first flat and first TV . |
| 10 | Advice from England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has helped me survive my first crisis as a manager . |
| 11 | Scarlet had found it all very puzzling and upsetting : she could n't envisage herself telephoning her first husband 's second wife to complain about her child — even if they had n't gone to Australia . |
| 12 | Joe Lydon 's impressive form at full-back , combined with an ability to play anywhere in the three-quarters , sees him make his third tour , while the man for whom he has deputised in recent weeks , Steve Hampson , goes on his first tour . |
| 13 | To show the trade how furniture should be displayed he opened his first Habitat in the Fulham Road in London . |
| 14 | Googol fiddled ostentatiously with the bandana round his brow as if toying with the idea of removing what masked his third eye , the warp-eye , a hostile glare from which could kill , as was widely known though seldom tested . |
| 15 | Saturday finds us enjoying our last day in North America in the company of Mickey Mouse and friends at Disneyland . |
| 16 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 17 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I would like to invite you to attend their next meeting on Thursday 21st January . |
| 18 | LENNOX LEWIS 'S three-fight plan was upset last night when WBC president Jose Sulaiman insisted he makes his first title defence against Tony Tucker . |
| 19 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 20 | ‘ So what did you tell her last night , Uncle Ted ? ’ |
| 21 | Why did you leave your last job ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why did you leave your last job ? ’ asked the employer . |
| 23 | How did you start your first gallery ? |
| 24 | ‘ Did you see her last night ? ’ |
| 25 | When in your life did you take your first drink ? |
| 26 | What did you get her last year ? |
| 27 | Did you get your first job from an audition ? |
| 28 | What do you think my first question would be ? |
| 29 | Or do you forget our first meeting ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ How do you know my first name ? ’ |