Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 2 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 6 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 7 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |
| 8 | I wonder if I could offer you a cup of coffee in my department within the next couple of minutes ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 10 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 11 | He admitted : ‘ There was doubt in my mind after the third round and I would have preferred to win by going head to head with Nick Price . |
| 12 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 13 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 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 's been a great weight on my shoulders over the last month . |
| 16 | From this discussion of London Creole we turn now to look at the London English of my informants in the next chapter . |
| 17 | I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects . |
| 18 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |
| 19 | My result in the afternoon race was the worst of the event as I dwelt over my fate up the first beat . |
| 20 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 21 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 22 | Following my disclosure in the last issue that escalating costs and reduced financial expectations had forced the United States Tennis Association to contemplate a major re-think of plans for the rebuilding of Flushing Meadow , I hear that the French Federation has also run into problems over the upgrading and expansion of Roland Garros . |
| 23 | I never paid my bills for the last month |
| 24 | After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | My right to the first move at chess carries with it the duty to continue with the game , and so on . |
| 27 | I stayed in my room on the eighth floor for most of the day , just waiting . |
| 28 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |