Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [num ord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Overreacting with shock and dismay when the child first comes out with a four-letter word is the best way to ensure he or she uses it again and again . |
2 | When The Clash first met up with beat poet Allen Ginsberg in '81 , Joe asked , ‘ Well Ginsberg , when you gon na run for president ? ’ |
3 | What happened was that the water first backed up behind the lipped edge of the top step , then over-flowed , and spilled with increasing force , in a sort of hydro-chain-reaction , down each subsequent step to the bottom of the channel . |
4 | When the call first came in from Fraxilly , I did n't accept it . |
5 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
6 | Foxing was a term first used in about the 1840s , probably because the brownish-yellow spots and blotches reminded some fox-hunting bibliophile of his quarry in the countryside . |
7 | The method of argument is based on the same underlying logic as the experiment , a logic first spelled out by John Stuart Mill in the nineteenth century . |