Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy . |
| 2 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 4 | The government 's manifesto commitment was to increase benefit in line with prices but this does not guarantee its future after the next election , and presumably any proposals on child benefit would have a long lead-in time . |
| 5 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 6 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
| 7 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 8 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 9 | Oxford United hope to secure their place in the second round of the Coca Cola Cup tonight . |
| 10 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 11 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 12 | On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment . |
| 13 | I know my Spencer ancestors built their wealth in the sixteenth century on the rearing of sheep , and I believe one of the benefits of receiving the Freedom of the City is that Freemen , or Women , are able to drive sheep across London Bridge and through the City of London . |
| 14 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 15 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Thresher insiders believe the company changed its decision at the last minute after TODAY 's revelations yesterday . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 18 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 19 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 20 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 21 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 22 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 23 | Denying his guilt to the last , he said he did n't bear his wife any ill will . |
| 24 | The MI5 man paused for a moment to stroke his beard again and a hint of emotion , of disgust , entered his voice for the first time . |
| 25 | He always has his party on the last free night before production . ’ |
| 26 | When young Scott Booth underlined his claim for a first full international start against the Germans on Wednesday by continuing his scoring form with Aberdeen 's second goal six minutes into the second half , things looked bleak for the hosts . |
| 27 | Oxford United will be announcing their new manager in the morning — we 'll be revealing his name for the first time , tonight on Central News . |
| 28 | In the Elements of Semiology , Barthes develops his theory of a second order system of semiosis using Hjelmslev 's ( 1953 ) distinction between connotation and denotation . |
| 29 | But Neolithic tribesmen and Iron Age warriors left their mark on these slopes thousands of years before Ranulf , Earl of Chester , built his fortress in the thirteenth century . |
| 30 | Grady slipped with a 75 but made the cut , as did Roger Davis with a splendid 68 to retrieve his position after a first round of 77 . |