Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 2 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 3 | ‘ He smelt the cigarette smoke and I was fired , typical of my luck during the first 30 years of my life , ’ recalls Caine , 59 . |
| 4 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 5 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 6 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was always my intention after the first two years of trying things out to get a more stable situation after the European Championships . |
| 8 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 9 | Hours went by as I dragged my legs over the next few miles . |
| 10 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 11 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 12 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 13 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 14 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |
| 15 | ‘ One of my problems over the last few years has been that I 'm amazingly optimistic — really stupid in fact ! |
| 16 | of manufacturing jobs were lost in Barry in my constituency in the last Conservative recession , manufacturing growth is down 3.7 per cent . |
| 17 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 18 | I made a point of playing all my players in the first two days . |
| 19 | ‘ Meaning that I 'll need all my strength in the next few days . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 21 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 23 | And you know it , it 's amazing how since my involvement for the last two years in Great Britain , all the problems that you have with critical illness , all the problems . |
| 24 | My discussion of the first two questions will revolve around Poulantzas ' notion of ‘ pertinent effects ’ . |
| 25 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 26 | Patricia McQuigg , the mother of one of his friends , says : ‘ Luke practically lived at my house during the last few years he was at school . |
| 27 | My target for the first 6 games was 10 points . |
| 28 | Ms Hoey , who strengthened her majority at the last general election in Vauxhall , which she first won at a by-election , has also caused a stir over Northern Ireland policy . |
| 29 | Their progress over the next two weeks will solve the Guineas mystery , but that is of little concern to connections of Dr Devious , who heads now for the Kentucky Derby ( for which he is 10–1 from 12–1 ) in Louisville on May 2 and returns to Epsom for the Ever Ready Derby in June . |
| 30 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |