Example sentences of "from [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I doubt that I have ever completely recovered from my first experience of a communal shower almost 20 years ago . |
| 2 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |
| 3 | These people have acquired their skills elsewhere : they receive no training in the course of their seasonal employment and are assumed to be fully functional from their first day at work . |
| 4 | DEEP PURPLE have a 27-track , triple-album collection , titled ‘ Anthology ’ , containing all the best tracks from their first formation in 1968 up until the first split in 1976 , released by EMI on March 18 . |
| 5 | Their goal , in the 46th minute , came from their first shot on target , and it was a real sickener for a Linfield defence who otherwise were as solid as a rock . |
| 6 | If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving . |
| 7 | The scene suggests a lifestyle familiar to the Franks from their first penetration of Gaul . |
| 8 | United would have sent Rangers into tomorrow night 's match at Motherwell on the rebound from their first defeat in 37 matches , too , had it not been for the exceptional goalkeeping of Andy Goram once again . |
| 9 | It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ . |
| 10 | These latter results exclude data from 34 patients with index ulcers less than 5 mm in diameter who had cumulative two , four , and eight week healing rates of 41.2% , 73.5% , and 97.1% respectively and 54 patients suffering from their first ulcer for whom the equivalent healing rates were 50% , 74.1% , and 94.4% . |
| 11 | Aston Villa could be just a day away from their first trophy of a new season , they play Arsenal tonight at Wembley in the fourteen Maceeter tournament with the prospect of a final tomorrow against Samdoria or Rael Sociadad live on television . |
| 12 | HAPPY campers Ron and Olive Saunders have just returned home from their 166th holiday at Butlins . |
| 13 | And now the Pakistan Cricket Board , with England 's laughable £1000-a-man ‘ hardship bonus ’ from their last tour of Pakistan as a precedent , announced that Javed Miandad and his men would be receiving a ‘ considerable ’ bonus ( £2000 each ? ) as well , principally for the hardships foisted upon the players by the irksome English tabloid newspapers during this tour . |
| 14 | There are plans to ban powerboats from their last refuge in the Lake District , Windermere , because of pollution , bank erosion and safety . |
| 15 | Gallagher spared the Linnets from their 10th defeat of the season with his first Runcorn goal from beneath the bar . |
| 16 | Mrs Hamlet , who now lives in Aldford Way , Winsford , began to rebuild her life and was delighted when she had a new baby daughter , Carina , from her second marriage to Robert . |
| 17 | Her death comes just one month after she split from her second husband by whom she had a daughter less than a year ago . |
| 18 | Mona — who has a five-year-old daughter Soroya from her first marriage to Belgian financier Arnold Bauwens — told the court she was a pacifist . |
| 19 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 20 | From her first class in Morden nine members went on to train as teachers , with Jean Parmiter eventually becoming a Senior Trainer . |
| 21 | It was a far cry from her first visit in 1973 as a member of the British three-day eventing team . |
| 22 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 23 | In fact , it 's Pamina that really grows in this production , from her first encounter with Monostatos ( 'a real pantomime villain' ) , through the cataclysmic change in her relationship with her mother , the Queen of the Night , from blind devotion to ultimate aversion . |
| 24 | A NORTH Belfast student has come home from her first attempt at the British Long Distance Swimming Championships with a medal . |
| 25 | She had no doubt they would come — she had had lots of inquiries from her last advertisement in the local paper — but in the meantime all the bills were thumping through the letter-box and Great-Aunt Alicia 's legacy was beginning to melt terrifyingly . |
| 26 | On the evidence of this new group of works , the Tate Gallery 's decision to acquire ‘ Deposition ’ from her last exhibition in 1990 was quite justified . |
| 27 | He had already edited several popular movie magazines , but it was because of Bazin 's reputation as a theoretician that this new one , more highbrow , attracted from its first publication in 1951 a group of young , enthusiastic and iconoclastic critics . |
| 28 | To his non-political contemporaries , however , Sparke was probably best known as the compiler of Crums of Comfort , a collection of prayers for such crises as death , poverty , and war , which went through forty-four editions from its first publication in 1628 to the last in 1755 . |
| 29 | Such success as it had from its first performance in 1936 onwards has been of the kind discouragingly dubbed as ‘ of esteem ’ . |
| 30 | From its first operation in the 1920s , the computer only reached commercial feasibility and success in 1964 . |