Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 2 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 3 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 4 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 5 | So we 've planted a seed and we either get introductions there and then or we 've paved the way to the pick them up at the second appointment . |
| 6 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 7 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 8 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 9 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 10 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 11 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 12 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 13 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 14 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 15 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 16 | Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row . |
| 17 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 18 | I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better . |
| 19 | ‘ You let me out at the next corner . |
| 20 | Maybe that 'll bring them back on the next plane . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 22 | He should then carry you on with the next question . |
| 23 | Wait until I let you through into the last cellar , and then I must take the keys back to the steward . |
| 24 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 25 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 26 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 27 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 28 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 29 | When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person . |
| 30 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |