Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eight I had my first migraine ( I could not please her , I might as well join her ; they stopped soon after I left home ) , and I started to get rapidly and relentlessly short-sighted . |
| 2 | In 1972 I undertook my first race since leaving school 35 years earlier and managed 13.3 seconds for the 100m , ending last in the O50 final and lame in both hamstrings . |
| 3 | In the late 70s ‘ Big Band Special ’ blossomed into the present long-running weekly series on Radio 2 which celebrated its 500th edition last year . |
| 4 | AT 2 she performed her first solo — as a bee emerging from a flower ! |
| 5 | In 1881 he married his first cousin , Eliza , daughter of Franklin Stanley Cripps , a small shopkeeper in Wisbech . |
| 6 | In 1808 he received his last assignment when he went to Sweden as minister . |
| 7 | During England 's tour of 1989–90 he celebrated his hundredth Test by scoring his eighteenth century , passing 7,000 runs in the process , and at the end of the series his total stood at 7,134 at an average of 46 . |
| 8 | Thank you for permitting me to tell you some more about EMMS and I close by mentioning that in November 1991 we celebrated our 150th Anniversary in the Greyfriars Church , Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Nothing is known of his education and early life , but on 17 February 1826 he received his first certificate of suitability for a post in the excise service . |
| 10 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
| 11 | I 'm glad you found our first Top to Tail so useful . |
| 12 | If an increase or decrease in the value of one variable is accompanied with an increase or decrease , respectively , in the other , the correlation is positive ( for instance , the later women marry the later they have their first child ) while , if the positive change in one variable is incidental to a negative change in another , the correlation is negative ( e.g. the later women marry , the lower their completed fertility ) . |
| 13 | In 1920 he published his first article , on the Hall 's history , in the first issue of its magazine , which he had launched , and in 1927 he produced a pioneering , scholarly study , An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times . |
| 14 | In 1859 he produced his last print ‘ Dogs of St. Bernard ’ , and in 1865 he was declared bankrupt . |
| 15 | When in 1831 he published his second novel , The Young Duke , the faults of the aristocracy lacked their social dimension . |
| 16 | In 1876–7 he made his first visit to Japan and this confirmed his admiration for oriental design and inspired much of his best work , as well as a book , Japan : its Architecture , Art , and Art Manufactures ( 1882 ) . |
| 17 | In 1853 he married his first cousin , Henrietta Elizabeth , daughter of Samuel Wood . |
| 18 | By the time I was 18 I had my first group — all kids from my neighbourhood . |
| 19 | The same man was at my flat last night asking questions and for all I know his next visit will be here , to see you , so … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have just got to make sure I win my next match . |
| 21 | On 6 May 1749 he married his first wife Martha , daughter of John Hudson , of Thames Street , London , hop merchant . |
| 22 | In 1922 he published his first book , Le Dragon de bambou , ridiculing the reforms in Annam . |
| 23 | Those who saw her last television programme , A Winter Too Many , will remember the extremely poignant sequence — and the tears — when she said farewell to her ‘ family ’ , the beloved beasts , as they wended their way down the road from Low Birk Hatt to new ownership , led by the senior cow — ‘ Rosa , my lovely Rosa ’ — who had given Hannah the only available warm drink , her milk , and acted as a radiator when the power failed at Low Birk Hatt during the last savage winter . |
| 24 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |
| 25 | In 1694 he published his first copybook , The Pen-man 's Treasury Open 'd . |
| 26 | On February 18 they start at the Tap and Spile in Darlington where they will play every other Tuesday , and on February 23 they play their first date at Queen Catherines Hotel , Osmotherly , which is also a fortnightly affair . |
| 27 | The Reich bought from members and supported the association to such an extent that in 1942 they celebrated their 75th anniversary with a big exhibition of German women artists ! |
| 28 | In 1855 he took his first party abroad to the Paris Exhibition and during the same year organized and led a Grand Circular Tour of Antwerp , Brussels , Waterloo , Cologne , Frankfurt , Heidelberg , Baden Baden and Paris . |
| 29 | On 28 September 1731 he married his second cousin Mary , illegitimate daughter of Robert Benson , Baron Bingley [ q.v. ] , politician . |
| 30 | You wrote that in 1936 you bought your first painting ( still your favourite British painting ) George Stubbs 's ‘ Pumpkin with a Stable Lad ’ , immediately you saw it . |