Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second man pushed me back against the wall . |
| 2 | The second box contained them too — red , this time . |
| 3 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 4 | The Second Son showed me how to make the hollow of one palm meet the other . |
| 5 | Mediaeval explorers from the south made little impact on their society , but incursions of southern whalers , sealers , missionaries , fur traders and administrators on an unprecedented scale during the 18th and 19th centuries exposed them more fully to southern civilization , often with devastating results ( Hall , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . |
| 7 | A sixth sense told her otherwise . |
| 8 | ‘ Our first talk turned her round from a position of despair to a position of strength and attack . ’ |
| 9 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 10 | well the questions a very simple one , back in January nineteen eighty eight , on any occasion you spoke to Mr either before or after the first article did you ever raise this question with the solicitors letter ? |
| 11 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 12 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 13 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 14 | Rocastle looked willing , but his first touch let him down on occasions ( still rusty I suppose ) . |
| 15 | Graham 's first touch let him down as Boro waited for offside and Stephen Pears was able to smother the ball . |
| 16 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 17 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 18 | She banished the idea , and in the next moment brought it back . |
| 19 | The walls , curved or octagonal , gleamed into brilliance as Jezrael passed , dying behind her until the next person switched them on by body-heat . |
| 20 | The third kick splintered it enough for her to break it off . |
| 21 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 22 | Eleven o'clock the next morning saw her immaculately dressed in a pale grey and pale pink creation , a great froth of fine lace at her throat and at her wrists . |
| 23 | We made the cut in 1970 for my first British Open with Tom , but a bad last round put him down the field . |
| 24 | A third scream told them where to go . |
| 25 | Vera next door brought them back from Spain for me . |
| 26 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 27 | The court last year heard he almost put down on the A4 at rush-hour , skimmed the Penta Hotel , and missed a telephone exchange by 12 feet as he approached Heathrow . |
| 28 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 29 | ‘ Pompey 's third goal killed us off and allowed them to run the show . |
| 30 | It was well after midnight when at last Fen said they really must go . |