Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
| 2 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 4 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 5 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 6 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 7 | When MacMinimum and I rode through the next day , they were pulling the walls down and even uprooting the foundations . |
| 8 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 9 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 10 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 11 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 12 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 13 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 14 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 15 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 16 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 17 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 20 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 23 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 24 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
| 28 | ‘ I played in the last Dublin game and the atmosphere was incredible . |
| 29 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 30 | I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door . |