Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 2 | I usually put my ribber carriage against the garter bar as this helps to keep it in its slightly precarious position while I finish knitting the first side . |
| 3 | ‘ Being very lazy by nature , I enjoy making the first sketches , but the practical precision , the mathematical measuring necessary to carry out the design and the extreme neatness required , both of which I am very bad at , I find irksome . |
| 4 | I remember watching the last episode on your predecessor ATV when it was repeated in 1976 and the announcer talked of people calling in with various theories about what it was all supposed to mean . |
| 5 | I felt I had to I When I went to school m my father could n't afford very much and erm I remember starting the first term of first day of the term with shoes with a big split in it . |
| 6 | I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates . |
| 7 | The probes used for Southern and Northern Blot hybridisation were Ea cDNA ( 41 ) , Eb cDNA ( 42 ) , Ea 695 bp ( Pst I/Kpn I fragment covering the second exon of Ea d ) and 5'Ea 1.1kb ( Sac I/Sal I 1.1 kb fragment isolated from cosmid 32.1 ) ( 26 ) and β-actin cDNA ( 43 ) . |
| 8 | Only once has he come close to losing his rag , when publicly embarrassed by his press secretary , Julie Hall , as she admitted giving the first name of the little girl at the centre of the health election broadcast row to the press . |
| 9 | She may have misheard the word as dictated , but it 's much more likely that as she started writing the first syllable , she almost automatically shifted the word across to one she knows ( and can spell ! coffee causes problems , usually ) . |
| 10 | Tom was at Swinbrook Manor and Dolly had gone to the farm to prepare some bread she intended baking the next day . |
| 11 | We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew . |
| 12 | But he denied killing the third member of the film crew , Mr della Casa 's wife , Rosanna , who has never been found , said the newspaper . |
| 13 | It saves wondering the next day whether Jimmy Lynch will bring anything to the house or not . ’ |