Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 2 | AT THE 600th step I finally stopped counting and paused to take in the view . |
| 3 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 4 | In the first place , he 's wealthy and in the second place I never could get on with his father . |
| 5 | I mean , on the second album we sometimes had as many as forty guitar tracks on one song . |
| 6 | Aye , you only had , had a brew the second time you really do at our house |
| 7 | In something like the Adagio of the Eighth Symphony we intuitively experience an overall stability , a kind of musical wholeness . |
| 8 | From the first day they completely opted out , wandering around saying how beautiful it was while we dug the vegetable garden . |
| 9 | The first day we just hated it , but when we got used to it , it was nowt like a prison . |
| 10 | He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’ |
| 11 | He was the first man I ever really looked at . |
| 12 | Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me … |
| 13 | The first man I ever saw and knew was , of course , my father . |
| 14 | During the first year we probably did n't give enough time to training . |
| 15 | And I really and truly , when Christmas came , i the first year I really thought , Oh I ca n't do this next year , it 's getting a bit too much . |
| 16 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |
| 17 | It 's almost the first pub I ever had . |
| 18 | " On reading the [ General ] Statute , " wrote Herzen 's collaborator Nikolai Ogarev , " the first question you involuntarily ask yourself is : for whom is it written ? " |
| 19 | I have good reason to remember a booklength early monograph of hers , published in the British journal of Animal Behaviour : it was almost the first text I ever read as an apprentice sub-editor . |
| 20 | As early as 14 September 1939 , Jonas Barrington in the Daily Express described this voice that called from Germany , though in the first instance it probably belonged to Norman Baillie-Stewart : ‘ He speaks English of the haw-haw , dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety , and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation . ’ |
| 21 | In truth , the first word I ever spoke was ‘ Granpa ’ , the second ‘ farthing ’ , and I could repeat his whole sales patter word for word by my third birthday . |
| 22 | The first music he ever heard was The Dam Busters . |
| 23 | In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman . |
| 24 | ‘ The first vehicle I ever owned was a moke like that , ’ he said , when the toddler 's fist opened . |
| 25 | The first animal she ever made friends with was a pig : ‘ When I was small I always wanted to join a circus with a troupe of six Tamworth pigs . |
| 26 | The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 . |
| 27 | Ken and I both went to music lessons and the first interest I ever had in music was the teacher at the school . |
| 28 | In the first set he simply was n't in the same class as his 21-year-old opponent in the huge Olympic Hall , at times pleading theatrically with Ferreira not to hit so hard , and giving his racket to a ball-boy as if to say , ‘ you have a go , you ca n't be worse than me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That was the first antique I ever bought , ’ Elinor said . |
| 30 | The bare statistical truth of solvent abuse is that one in four of the children who die from the habit do so the first time they ever sniff glue or lighter fluid . |