Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 2 | He said that he had taken into account the views of local authorities put to him since he met them last year , he might have taken in to account of course , we did n't accept any of the er er observations . |
| 3 | He attacked me first . |
| 4 | They asked me first of all why I paint on paper and I 'm using older to paint on . |
| 5 | ‘ May I ask you what you asked me last week ? |
| 6 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 7 | Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night . |
| 8 | So he got me last nights , we 're gon na have to go tomorrow so we 'll have to go tonight now , got ta tell ! |
| 9 | ‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims . |
| 10 | The passage was not some ghastly simile of war or territorial domination ( though heaven knows what the Iranians would have made of it ) , but just a pictorial explanation of the passage North said he read them next , from the third chapter of Galatians : ‘ Know ye therefore that they which are of faith , the same are the children of Abraham . ’ |
| 11 | I got them last night , you know . |
| 12 | Er er got them last week from Freeman Hardy and Willis . |
| 13 | I there soon experienced my first dealings with corporal punishment . |
| 14 | Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie . |
| 15 | Lincoln rapidly became my second favourite town , largely because of its fabulous cathedral . |
| 16 | From then on the hospital became my second home . |
| 17 | I glanced at my reflection to admire the effect and then I got my second shock that evening . |
| 18 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 19 | South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever . |
| 20 | I got my first taste of the Masters with Tom . |
| 21 | Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands . |
| 22 | Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash . |
| 23 | I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing . |
| 24 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 25 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 26 | I first became involved with releasing barn owls into the wild about two years ago , shortly after i got my first breeding pair , Barny and Mrs Barny . |
| 27 | I got my first borstal when I was about eighteen for assault on another girl . |
| 28 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 29 | When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack . |
| 30 | After acquiring the relevant paper qualifications in 1979 I got my first sales and marketing job in 1980 . |