Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 2 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 3 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 5 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 6 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 7 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 8 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 9 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 10 | I started work the next day . |
| 11 | I went to court the next morning , was refused bail and was remanded to Holloway . |
| 12 | I had survived the second lap but an ordinary rest would be inadequate now . |
| 13 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 14 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 15 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 16 | Er on appointment , like other recruits , I had to serve the first month on night duty . |
| 17 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 18 | Obviously , I had started the next craze . |
| 19 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 20 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 21 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 22 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 23 | A minor problem which threatened to delay the second volume of Mary Leapor 's work was the epitaph [ see ML , 2 , 324 ] . |
| 24 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 25 | Unlike the protests of 1987 which had ended the Fifth Republic , the 1991 protests , although frequently large and violent , lacked support from the country 's middle class . |
| 26 | Wordsworth took the materialist philosophy of Locke and Hartley which had sufficed the eighteenth century , and changed round the terms , writing in positive instead of negative signs Instead of a dead universe described in terms of machines from which the Creator had departed , he proposed a living universe called ‘ Nature ’ described in terms of growth and organic life , which was being continuously created by a God who was inextricably involved in all its parts Whereas in Locke the mind at birth was ‘ a white paper ’ , with no innate ideas , in Wordsworth the mind retains in early childhood some consciousness of a pre-existent state ; in Locke the mind passively receives impressions from the senses , but in but in Wordsworth the mind actively perceives and a creative power within the mind organizes the multitude of chaotic sense impressions into a partial picture of the world . |
| 27 | In the event , President de Gaulle and France , still preoccupied by the war in Algeria which had toppled the Fourth Republic , did not obstruct the deadline , choosing not to invoke the escape clauses which France had insisted be incorporated into the Rome Treaty . |
| 28 | However , apart from these demonstrations and an outbreak of panic buying in the last days of March , the public response to the second stage of price liberalization was muted , in marked contrast to the street protests which had greeted the first state in November 1990 [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 29 | The poll , which had provided the first opportunity for the union 's 1,600,000 membership to elect directly its national officers , had been organized as part of a settlement agreement to a huge civil racketeering suit brought against the Teamsters by the Justice Department [ see also pp. 37954-55 ] . |
| 30 | COMPARED to Wednesday 's winter blizzards , which had reduced the first day to 27 instead of 36 holes , the conditions for the Peter McEvoy Trophy at Copt Heath yesterday were wonderful — icy winds and leaden skies with just the occasional hint of a watery sun . |