Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 2 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked her to marry me that first night . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I actually asked her to marry me that first night , and she said yes , ’ says Barry . |
| 5 | If you know who the contact was , then tell me that first . ’ |
| 6 | If you give me that first . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 8 | ‘ So you were following me that first night , and you were in the Piazzale Roma to — ’ |
| 9 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 10 | " You told me that last month , so you did . " |
| 11 | She told me that last week ! |
| 12 | ‘ Well I am partial to a bit of Severn salmon , ’ Bert continued , ‘ if you promise me that next half tidy salmon that comes your way , you can have the bike for a hundred and fifty . |
| 13 | I found peasants who sheltered and fed me that next day . |
| 14 | But if you do n't tell them that first of all you want a contract . |
| 15 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 16 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 17 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 18 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 19 | My 81 first class wickets last summer proved the point . |
| 20 | Let me tell you , when those dubbin-lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip ’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost ’ gesture . |
| 21 | F.L. Wilder celebrated his one hundredth birthday last month and remembers eighty years of the art trade |
| 22 | The worlds oldest Benedictine Monk celebrated his one hundredth birthday today . |
| 23 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 24 | My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill . |
| 25 | His Carnival ( my own first choice when Building a Library for BBC Radio 3 ) , too , is alive with gaiety and passion . |
| 26 | My own first tenth and a tenth of T'zin 's . |
| 27 | ‘ A few hours ago I burned the remains of my own first born , ’ Tallis said . |
| 28 | Having disciplined , explored and contained my own metaphysical anguish , having put down my own last worthy appetites , having separated myself by conscious decision from the filth and decadence of modern society , it is inevitable that my own hard-won sense of propriety or dignity should tempt me into being the scourge of other , more self-indulgent beings , fictional or not . |
| 29 | So far , so good , but finding a set of correlations of this sort still says nothing about whether they are necessarily part of the memory formation process unless I can find a way of showing that they are not simply the aftermath of the unpleasant experience of tasting the bitter bead ; that is , I must meet my own third , reductionist criterion . |
| 30 | that was my twenty first birthday we bought that on , so that was before Gary was born and er , that had black screw on legs as well , the televisions had black screw , oh we did n't have a television we had a second hand television about a year after we were married and I remember Coronation Street starting , that started about when we got married . |