Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wham , bam , ba , loo-la was n't it first ? , or or something , |
| 32 | Cos we 've got television and video and satellites and that , so it 'll have to be hol holograms wo n't it next ? |
| 33 | A natter about ten I 'd expect wo n't it next week ? |
| 34 | was n't it last time you came , years ago , and he cried ? |
| 35 | It was six pounds odd was n't it last time ? |
| 36 | That 's how I first met him . |
| 37 | ‘ It is how I first saw you , ’ he confessed grimly . |
| 38 | , see I got very pally with old , , we use to play snooker together that 's how I first met him and then we went there , and I never knew he 'd been in the cos I transferred to the R E's you see . |
| 39 | Neither Maurice Hasson nor Christian Ivaldi are new to the catalogue , and indeed I first came across their names , though separately , in the 1970s . |
| 40 | It was there I first auditioned for the band . |
| 41 | It was there I first met them , a small hunting-party . |
| 42 | It was there I first saw the Face To Face programmes , too , little realising John Freeman would one day become my greatest influence as an interviewer . |
| 43 | It was quite interesting how she first materialized . |
| 44 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 45 | that 's how she first got that |
| 46 | Can you tell us how you first became involved in the dispute ? |
| 47 | Suppose you tell me exactly where and how you last saw him . ’ |
| 48 | If the counts were 7 , 2 , 3 and 9 then we first find the sum of the counts ( 21 ) and divide each individual count by the sum of the counts to give p(1) = 0.33 , p(2) = 0.09 , p(3) = 0.14 and p(4) = 0.43 . |
| 49 | Singer then asked respondents to say how they first heard about the Detroit riot , and what details they were initially given . |
| 50 | From a socio-cultural point of view , the crucial issue is not what our remote ancestors looked like , or the hypothetical level of their IQ , but when or where or why or how they first learned to talk . |
| 51 | And I ca n't remember how it first came up , but we had this argument . |
| 52 | In order to invest abroad he first has to acquire foreign currency ( i.e. foreign exchange ) , which can then be used to purchase overseas bonds and shares . |
| 53 | Then it first it 's strawberry moose , then it 's erm lemon cheesecake , then it 's chocolate biscuit cake . |
| 54 | There he first worked as a translator in the news agency run by Charles Havas , who was later to become his friend . |
| 55 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 56 | Hope 's manager , Terry Lawless , himself white , told me of how he first became aware of this . |
| 57 | As for how he first came into my hands , you shall ask him that for yourself . ’ |
| 58 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 59 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 60 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |