Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever .
2 I watch the familiar shops and houses go by ; Mum 's old gift shop ( now a video shop ) ; the Arms , where I had my first pint ; Dad 's old garage , still doing business .
3 Prices ( including flights ) based on the Taj Holiday Village where I stayed my first week start at £566 per person for seven days ' bed and breakfast ( £738 for fourteen days ) .
4 Within five minutes a young locum arrived and Allison was immediately admitted to the local maternity hospital , where she lost her fourth child .
5 But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry .
6 But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like .
7 ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’
8 It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle .
9 It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully .
10 He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track .
11 I 'm especially pleased Tracy chose the Evert Cup for her comeback and that she had her first success here . ’
12 A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst .
13 ‘ Is it permitted for me to call you Cara ? ’ he enquired , having just asked that she use his first name .
14 Margaret , already a mother of eight , decided that she wanted her ninth baby to be born at home .
15 However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud .
16 I 've heard of women so depressed that they spend their 40th birthday incommunicado , having a mini nervous breakdown in bed .
17 Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter .
18 He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy .
19 The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine .
20 It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard .
21 Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there .
22 ‘ Fired — dismissed , ’ she offered a couple of alternatives — only to find that he found her first offering of more interest .
23 He met Paula , described by workmates as popular and outgoing , in 1988 the year that he divorced his first wife .
24 Celtic farmed him out to Blantyre Celtic to toughen him up and it was in the killing fields of Blantyre that he won his first honour , a Scottish Junior cap .
25 As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated .
26 In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ .
27 At the end of summer there were still patches of old snow on the sheltered slopes of the Cirque des Pessons , and I wrote my first poem about Andorra :
28 I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink .
29 When I reached the pit bottom , there was approximately three feet of water at the pit bottom and I had my first experience of water in the mines .
30 When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches .
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