Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the hundredth stroke she 's taken ! |
| 2 | And then on the sixteenth month you 've got ta pay it back . |
| 3 | Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations . |
| 4 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 5 | Lord Aldington replied : ‘ This will be the hundredth time you say what I 've said is a lie , and it is the hundredth time you have made me very angry . ’ |
| 6 | In the second part we begin to look at some of the arguments which have been developed about the possible effects of new technology on the kinds of jobs available in the future . |
| 7 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 8 | In our second study we sought to confirm our findings that group and individual cognitive therapy were equally effective . |
| 9 | At the beginning of his second term he started to deal with the problem by introducing people loyal to the administration at strategic levels throughout the departments . |
| 10 | Since his second stroke he had found the effort of conversation hardly worth the meagre rewards . |
| 11 | This is the second machine I 've seen from Western Systems . |
| 12 | He and his wife decided not to put off having the second child they had planned , despite the financial uncertainty . |
| 13 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 14 | Erm and the second law you 've heard of force equals mass times acceleration ? |
| 15 | The victim was then hypnotised twice and during the second session he claimed to recognise the accused as the attacker . |
| 16 | The second point I want to make is in relation to something that has changed since the approved strategy and that is the inter-relationship between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire . |
| 17 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 18 | The second point I want to raise is the issue erm of the green belt , er which is er a constraint in Greater York erm we 've made significant progress in moving towards the statutory definition of the green belt , the green belt local plan has now completed erm its public enquiry , and a lot of the deliberations in Greater York have centred around the effect on of the green belt on development potential in Greater York , so that is a main issue , I think , in response to issues , the discussion of issues in Greater York . |
| 19 | Darwin seemed near a solution in the first edition of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex , but by the second edition he had decided that it was a problem best left ‘ for the future ’ . |
| 20 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 21 | And the same is true of the second distinction I want to draw . |
| 22 | Brown had fallen miserably in love ( so he said ) with a girl named Betty Fowler , whom he 'd met one Friday evening at a hop held in the Oxford Town Hall , and already on their second meeting they had vowed a mutual , eternal love . |
| 23 | The second theme I have tried to illustrate throughout this chapter is the distinction between good coping strategies and bad coping strategies . |
| 24 | And even when you got into your second years you did get erm two hours off one day and three hours the next , which was usually five till eight . |
| 25 | The second day we had to knit our design . |
| 26 | The second day he started looking for a house to rent . |
| 27 | And this is the second day you 've refused to let me bring my bedding up . |
| 28 | Once they 'd had a conversation on two levels , from street to first-floor window ; it had been in April ; on the second occasion he 'd visited her in the afternoon , for a walk along the canal . |
| 29 | Giving her a second chance he having failed |
| 30 | The chief education officer also provides an illustration of the second factor we wish to mention . |