Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly I telephoned him quite early the next morning and received a cordial invitation to come and drink a cup of coffee with him in his home in Lord North Street . |
| 2 | So when he brushed me aside brusquely the next time , I knew everything was OK . |
| 3 | It was a tag that surprised me very much the first time I heard it … but now I 've stopped worrying . |
| 4 | Interestingly enough , Laplace included it in only the first and second editions of his book The System of the World , and left it out of later editions ; perhaps he decided that it was a crazy idea . |
| 5 | The Suez event was a parting of many ways ; but justice is not done to their complexity by perceiving it as merely the last spasm of an Empire-orientated Britain , a Britain conditioned to regard ‘ losing out in the Middle East ’ as immediate destruction . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 7 | I thought that this morning when I saw you again , and I want you to know I do n't think we should leave it so long the next time . ’ |
| 8 | We wo n't leave it so long the next time |