Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 32 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 33 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 34 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 35 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 36 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 37 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 38 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 39 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 40 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 41 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
| 42 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
| 43 | That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks . |
| 44 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 45 | I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door . |
| 46 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 47 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 48 | I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long . |
| 49 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 50 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 51 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 52 | I speak for the first time . |
| 53 | Now I die for the last time . |
| 54 | I di I dive off the first board but I could n't even jump or drop off the second board . |
| 55 | ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows : |
| 56 | At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time . |
| 57 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 58 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 59 | ‘ You think I arrived in the last shower or rain ? |
| 60 | She was not at all the uppity , self-important celebrity I read about the next day . |