Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [adv] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast between the two boys , fruitful as it is for the novelist , is strong both in the early part of the story , when they are in training , and in the second phase when they work their way from Paris to Rome , to Salzburg , to Vienna . |
| 2 | It had passed for the thirteenth time when she returned her attention to the bead of light , and caught her breath . |
| 3 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
| 4 | IRELAND 'S Sonia O'Sullivan crowned a magnificent season at Crystal Palace last night when she took her track earnings in just one week to a staggering 150,000 dollars . |
| 5 | THE husband of Julie Godwin told last night how he kissed her goodbye as she set off on her fateful holiday to South Africa . |
| 6 | Richard Fish , 24 , told from his hospital bed last night how he fractured his spine in three places when his bid to equal the world canoe free-fall record for a second time went ‘ horribly wrong . ’ |
| 7 | THE estranged wife of a cheating council boss told last night how she took his £22,000 Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of the town hall where he works . |
| 8 | at the moment now next month when you get your next bill that ten pound thirty will be worth about twenty ninety one . |
| 9 | Those expatriate Conservative voters in Singapore must have choked on their gin slings last week when they opened their copy of the Straits Times . |
| 10 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon Inc continued its foray into smaller sites last week when it launched its Series Office BOSS Branch Office SolutionS integrated hub . |
| 11 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 12 | Sunday Life helped launch the Laserfair NI fund this time last year when we asked our readers to help bring revolutionary new medical equipment to Ulster . |
| 13 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 14 | I thought we had him last year when he lost his rag in a pub down in Kent and tried to push a glass through the landlord 's face . ’ |
| 15 | Its courtship of Mitel ended in tears last year when it sold its stake in the Canadian company at a loss of £120m ( $120m ) . |
| 16 | Do n't forget last Christmas when you forgot your mother 's and we had to come dashing back for it , and it snowing like blazes . |