Example sentences of "[num ord] [pron] [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On December the fourteenth I announced my provisional capping criteria . |
| 2 | On May 31st they claimed their biggest victim so far : Dobrica Cosic , the president of what is left of Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | The second one had its neck an' jaw broke — again by a kick , he reckons . |
| 4 | The second one shook his head and gestured we should follow . |
| 5 | On March 19th he named his successor , Mr Michael Hallman , most recently the manager of 13,000 employees in the computer-services division of Boeing . |
| 6 | There was a dropped shot at the twelfth and another at the fifteenth which had her turning in 38 against the par of 37 . |
| 7 | In the fourth he declared his belief to be in accord with that of the Catholic Church ; he could , of course , privately satisfy himself that this was consistent with his contention that Popery was a corruption of Catholicism . |
| 8 | First I had my shower . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , first I assured your Signor Calder that his company was not about to lose Sabatini 's financial backing — ’ |
| 10 | At first I gave her oral sex while she was sitting in an armchair and then we had full sex with a condom . |
| 11 | First you made my colleague distressed " |
| 12 | From the first she took her meals with Anna . |
| 13 | At first she treated his request in a light-hearted way and broke into a fit of giggles . |
| 14 | First she dedicated her song that night to the man who was bleeding ( he was still in The Bar , the taxi had n't come yet ) , and then to the men who had brought their fists down on his face just two streets from her Bar . |
| 15 | The thought lit a mischievous little spark deep within , and at first she shook her head , telling herself it was a ridiculous idea . |
| 16 | That was their view when first we reduced our North Sea oil prices , and now they think it again . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs Robinson , who own the house but have divided it into single bed-sits for Social Security tenants , told police that at first they thought their son had been a victim of cot death syndrome , but a post mortem examination revealed the murder and assault . |
| 18 | At first they spent their Saturdays and an occasional evening with a group of friends : shopping , at parties , going to the cinema or occasionally to a disco . |
| 19 | First they declared their grave concern at the happenings in South Ronaldsay , and condemned the method or lack of method , used to investigate the allegations . |
| 20 | First they satisfied their individual material needs for food and shelter . |
| 21 | He worked six days a week in his white milking clothes , milking and butter-making , and on the seventh he wore his best suit to take his family proudly to church . |
| 22 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
| 23 | First he kissed her forehead , then her eyes , her mouth , her throat . |
| 24 | When God made the plants that are on this Earth , first He made their stalks and leaves . |
| 25 | At first he thought her body was a bag of rubbish but then saw her rucksack . |
| 26 | First he brought his son , John Mason , aged seventeen , into the business to help out in the crisis and together father and son paraded through the streets of Sheffield , Leeds , Derby and Bradford with a band , making speeches about their trips to the Great Exhibition . |
| 27 | On the 15th he hit his drive such a prodigious distance that the one wag among the gallery suggested that drugs testing should be introduced at subsequent Matches . |
| 28 | On Monday 26th we made our way down the River . |
| 29 | When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled , |
| 30 | The evening before last I watched your father proceeding very slowly towards the dining room with his tray , and I am afraid I observed clearly a large drop on the end of his nose dangling over the soup bowls . |