Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 2 | The second question I have with your permission sir . |
| 3 | The second thing I welcomed from him was the need to get away from outward Western forms in worship and adopt meaningful indigenous forms . |
| 4 | And the second point I think about this year 's intake is that , in terms of A-level grades , it 's particularly good . |
| 5 | The second point I want to er make Mr Deputy Speaker wholly relating to this erm er clutch of er orders of which er eighteen plus the er the schedule which the minister did n't have time to go through in great detail , is the thrust of why I put the amendment down erm in fact that this order should not be er erm approved indeed until the citizens of Gibraltar have been and able to be represented in the European parliament . |
| 6 | The second drawing I submit to your lively discernment is the indigo bush , from which a deep and lustrous shade of blue is obtained by a kind of alchemy . |
| 7 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 8 | The second conclusion I drew about change masters ' individual skills was their ability to articulate and communicate visions . |
| 9 | ‘ When I lost that opening game in the fourth set I said to myself ‘ this is your match ’ . |
| 10 | She was the first patient I saw with pseudochyluria . |
| 11 | ‘ The first day I went into school wearing shalwar kameez a teacher said to me , ‘ Are you all right , Yasmin ? |
| 12 | I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard . |
| 13 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 14 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 15 | erm when I went the first year I looked at them . |
| 16 | The first person I see at Birkdale is Gary player , and I ask him if he 's fixed up with a caddie . |
| 17 | In fact I was born in Manchester and Violet Carson ( alias Ena Sharples ) was the first person I introduced on TV when I was 20 . |
| 18 | And the first person I danced with was ‘ him ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I went to the Defence Ministry stand — but the first person I spoke to simply shrugged and walked away . |
| 20 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 21 | Then I darted breathless and sodden into the first hotel I came to . |
| 22 | ‘ The first dress I bought from Mainbocher was a model ; a lovely organdie embroidered with navy — the first short evening dress I ever had . |
| 23 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 24 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 25 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 26 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 27 | " Combining mystery with history " : this was a phrase I invented ( or perhaps inadvertently cribbed ) for the blurb of the first novel I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey , The Governess , a story in which Miss Harriet Unwin in her first post as a governess in 1870s London finds herself accused of murder and has to pinpoint the real killer to save herself from the Old Bailey . |
| 28 | Er , we had a breeders ' meeting in October which was I enjoy them very much , I enjoy the the talk because it 's the first chance I get during the year when I can sit down and listen and I do n't have to worry about them generally , in another club , I do n't have to worry about minutes or anything , I just sit and listen and it 's great it , I really enjoy that . |
| 29 | ‘ My father bought the estate before the war for the milk , not ever intending to go there , but then when the war came we lived there , from about 1942 when I was four and the first things I remember in life were from there . ’ |
| 30 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |