Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 2 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 3 | The phone wo n't ring because there 's a two-second delay to get you into the device . |
| 4 | Camden writing in the late sixteenth century states they ‘ destroyed everything with fire and sword : Nor could it ever after recover its ancient dignity ’ . |
| 5 | A survey of the careers of scholars generally in the latter half of the sixteenth century allows one to make explicit a generalization implicit in the evidence of the Muftis ' careers , namely that , as a general rule , the higher the level the scholar reached in the medrese system , the higher he was likely to rise in the mevleviyet system . |
| 6 | However , more recent sightings by Archbishop Trench in the sixteenth century suggest it was a beast in its own right : |
| 7 | I intended to explore the ways in which major English writers of the sixteenth century created their own performances , to analyze the choices they made in representing themselves and in fashioning characters … but as my work progressed , I perceived that fashioning oneself and being fashioned by cultural institutions — family , religion , state — were inseparably intertwined . |
| 8 | Plagues and continued French raids in the fourteenth century halted its growth . |
| 9 | ‘ Mind you ’ Maxim said ‘ I could go back to her cottage and have a second snoop taking my time . |
| 10 | The second O reminds one strongly of the logo for the Florist Delivery Association : the friendly folks who deliver joy to your door in the form of cut , dead flowers . |
| 11 | If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done . |
| 12 | A second measure had him pacing the house again . |
| 13 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 14 | The second field contains their names . |
| 15 | Across the highway , the driver of the second rig swung his wheel hard over and accelerated in through the gap in the wake of the three fire tenders . |
| 16 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 17 | A second look confirmed they were there , but he asked photographer Douglas McCord to take a picture to convince everyone that they do n't put something strong in the gatehouse tea and coffee . |
| 18 | You may want to wind down your workload as you get older — but without a second income to replace your lost earnings , your options will be restricted . |
| 19 | Leicester C1 Tranmere R0 A GOAL in the last minute by substitute Kevin Russell lifted Leicester into second place in the Second Division to give their promotion hopes a timely boost . |
| 20 | For the appropriate timing for such an application , see Ginera Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 , in which the Second Division considered it would be " odd " if an applicant who had only a provisional grant of a licence , could have permission for Sunday opening before the licence for the premises was in force . |
| 21 | Protesters have been out in force as the council makes its second attempt to set its annual budget . |
| 22 | Encouraged by its success and well informed by his agents in France of the increasing unpopularity of the July Monarchy , the Prince decided in the summer of 1840 on a second attempt to seize his inheritance . |
| 23 | It is the 31-year-old journalist 's second attempt to complete her ascent of the world 's tallest peak after an earlier effort was aborted due to bad weather . |
| 24 | Turn on the television and every second programme has someone talking about his or her problems , his or her divorce , his or her illegitimacy , his or her illness , alcoholism , drug addiction , sexual violation , bankruptcy , cancer , amputation , psychotherapy . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the second capacitor passes its charge on to the third capacitor . |
| 26 | The second key let them into a vaulted stone cellar , and groping torch in hand along the far wall behind the piled casks of wine , Thomas brushed the cobwebs from a low , insignificant door . |
| 27 | At the resumed hearing a nolle prosequi was entered pursuant to section 4(1) of the Criminal Justice ( Administration ) Act The defendant was tried on a second indictment charging him with murder , convicted and sentenced to death . |
| 28 | The second aircraft made his attack over the breakwater , released his torpedo and saw a hit on destroyer . |
| 29 | For our second experiment let us take the opposite tack . |
| 30 | At the same time many among them are sympathetic to the Greens , whom their second vote gives them the opportunity to support . |