Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth .
2 I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask .
3 Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year .
4 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 .
5 I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one .
6 A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up
7 To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road .
8 Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date .
9 They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry .
10 I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them .
11 by the time I 'd got to the next one
12 Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’
13 And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney .
14 Perversely , I enjoyed going beyond the last putt , and watching Augusta 's chairman , embodiment of America 's ‘ Establishment , ’ claim his share of world television with a speech of mind-bending banality .
15 And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it .
16 One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’
17 I had trained for the first time only four days before !
18 I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race .
19 The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour .
20 I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle .
21 The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail .
22 And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there …
23 I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river .
24 I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy .
25 The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks .
26 I had to write to the next of kin .
27 We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip .
28 I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one
29 I continued to stay in the Second Son 's bedroom in the villa .
30 All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings .
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