Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 2 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 3 | ‘ I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game . |
| 4 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 5 | Perhaps their own style , which became dominant in the twentieth century , did not emerge as such until sciences moved into the phase of theory and systematising which ( for rather obscure reasons ) suited them admirably . |
| 6 | Graphite mining was another industry which became important in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | By ‘ thought ’ , however , Pascal does not mean that somewhat shallow notion of Reason which became fashionable in the eighteenth century and which has become fashionable again in the twentieth in the guise of formal logic . |
| 8 | These he assembled in his Chelsea Knackatory in 1695 , an establishment which proved popular for the next hundred years . |
| 9 | Thompson is concerned to place plebeian recreations into a popular mentalité which remained active through the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 12 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 13 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 14 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 15 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 16 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |
| 17 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 18 | She remained feverish over the next 14 hours with cold peripheries and an arterial blood pressure of 90/50 mm Hg . |
| 19 | Then we fell foul of the 16th . |
| 20 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 21 | They struck lucky with the second block of flats . |
| 22 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 23 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 24 | Connor McCaffrey ( 18 ) was taking the lift to his room at Queen 's University halls of residence when it became stuck between the third and fourth floors . |
| 25 | But it became obvious on the next pitch that even had I been so inspired we would not have progressed much further . |
| 26 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |
| 27 | He became communicative for the first time . |
| 28 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 29 | He felt uneasy for the first time ever , a prickling at the back of his neck , a sense of personal danger . |
| 30 | Re-exporting of tropical and semi-tropical products had boomed in the later seventeenth century and although expansion was less rapid thereafter , it held firm through the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century . |