Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 2 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 3 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 4 | I was not aware that circumcision might be a painful , controversial , and perhaps an unethical procedure , but I planned the next attempt in compliance with the editor 's requests . |
| 5 | I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved ! |
| 6 | I got the first shot in : one good punch . |
| 7 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 8 | In March 1951 , I reported the first immunization of children with live attenuated polio type II virus at a meeting of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in Hershey , Pennsylvania . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm just trying to get some perspective here , ’ he said as I twisted the last coldness from my beer bottle . |
| 10 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 11 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 12 | I chaired the first meeting in the institute . |
| 13 | I soon became bored , realizing that I was n't going to get much chance to compete for the club — my best time was 23.3 seconds for 200 metres — so I joined the second club with its headquarters at the track , London Irish , which was more intimate and not quite so awe-inspiring . |
| 14 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 15 | Cos I spent , I spent the first week of the holiday mainly with Shelley . |
| 16 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 17 | After two months in prison , I heard the first news about why I was being held as a political prisoner . |
| 18 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 19 | I watched the first flood of water race down to the sea , muddy and littered , then turned to head for home . |
| 20 | And then my erm my mother saw him and then I went to see him and Then I started the last week in July with him after the school closed . |
| 21 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |
| 22 | For somewhat different reasons in each case , there is not entailment between I chose the first rose on the list and I chose the first flower on the list , nor between Mary was disappointed to receive a rose and Mary was disappointed to receive a flower ( perhaps she was expecting an orchid ? ) . |
| 23 | For somewhat different reasons in each case , there is not entailment between I chose the first rose on the list and I chose the first flower on the list , nor between Mary was disappointed to receive a rose and Mary was disappointed to receive a flower ( perhaps she was expecting an orchid ? ) . |
| 24 | I thought the second half of it was hilarious I 've read it before . |
| 25 | With an almighty tug-of-war heave , with my back almost horizontal and shoulders pressed hard into the cross-bar , I crossed the first patch of sand . |
| 26 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 27 | I was struck when I attended the first conference on corporate governance after the draft Cadbury Report was published . |
| 28 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 29 | Yes , I had all the other feelings of distress and fear , I thought of the world at war , I remembered the last war of 1914 — 18 when I was still a schoolboy and I had experienced the air raids on London then . |
| 30 | I learned the next song from my four-year-old son Russell whose teacher had adapted it from an older song to help with subtraction . |