Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 3 | What I want to explore in the next chapter , then , is the question of the cultural boundaries between different subjects . |
| 4 | The particular case which I want to develop in the next chapter is that those strategies that involve sustained denial of or inattention to personal ideas , values , philosophy and vision , are bad strategies . |
| 5 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 6 | Such is the burden of what I hope to argue in the next chapters . |
| 7 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 8 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've played in the Third Division with Walsall and I do n't want to go back to it . ’ |
| 10 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 11 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 12 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 13 | all I 've eaten in the last week and one day is salads |
| 14 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 15 | One thing I 've learnt in the last half hour is the speed at which the rules of debate seem to be changing and it will not surprise you to hear that as Mr Allenby and Harrogate District Council have moved towards Professor Lock 's point of view , they have moved away from the Civic Society 's point of view . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |
| 17 | I continued to stay in the Second Son 's bedroom in the villa . |
| 18 | All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario . |
| 19 | Here 's the list I 've made so far — all the children I have seen in the last three weeks . |
| 20 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |
| 21 | In particular the area 's unemployment rate which has doubled in the last 18 months . |
| 22 | His argument will pivot on the spiralling bill for legal aid , which has doubled in the last five years , reaching £83 million last year . |
| 23 | The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary . |
| 24 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 25 | Bishops were unlikely to help them , for " Whatever the cost , even if it means the destruction of the church , [ bishops ] try to preserve that power and significance which prelates possessed in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries " . |
| 26 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 27 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 28 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 29 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
| 30 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |