Example sentences of "[verb] my [noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy . |
| 3 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 5 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 6 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 7 | SUZANNE , 19 , had visited my surgery for a second time in five days . |
| 8 | " Alone , " she told my mother on the first night . |
| 9 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 10 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 11 | I put my hand on the last page , and hesitated . |
| 12 | Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop . |
| 13 | I shake my head and trawl my spoon through the last of my soup . |
| 14 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 15 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 16 | I never paid my bills for the last month |
| 17 | Encouraged by the finding of this tiny coin , I turned my attention to the second side of the pond and began the same operation along its full length . |
| 18 | I was there forty years , right , I 've seen every accident on that bend , I 've had my house as a first aid post a dozen times , until we did something in this committee to sort that corner out |
| 19 | I bided my timing till the last , then , Gypsy Rose Lee-like , flung off my good nap coat to reveal all . |
| 20 | I 've got my orals on the eighteenth , nineteenth , and twentieth |
| 21 | To be honest I ca n't remember , I know my lot on the last thing Wigan was doing two hundred and thirty an hour , so twelve times twenty , two hundred and thirty |
| 22 | Besides , I set my tale in the last century and not today , because that is a convention which readers like . ’ |
| 23 | I would therefore be grateful if you could publish my address in the next issue of CONTACT . |
| 24 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 25 | Erm you already had , er , the opportunity to read my letter of the eighteenth of April er , circulated with the report and accounts , which fully explains the proposals being put forward and which are for firstly increasing the authorized share capital of the company creating two new classes of preference share er , renewing the board 's authority to allot shares renewing the board 's power to modify preemption rights authorizing the company to purchase its own er , ordinary shares reducing the company 's share capital by repaying the existing preference shares er , making certain amendments to the company 's employee share schemes increasing the aggregate sum available for directors ' fees and authorizing the company to issue summary financial statements . |
| 26 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 27 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 28 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 29 | A , you might not want to come and join my company in the first place |
| 30 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |