Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stated , correctly in my view , that he had quote seen her much more than anybody else unquote and confessed that when he had first treated her on the day of the accident he had quote never expected to see her again , unquote . |
| 2 | It was barely four months since Randolph Fields had first approached him with the idea of starting an airline . |
| 3 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
| 4 | His eyes grew dark , as they had been when Caroline had first seen him from the catwalk . |
| 5 | I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop . |
| 6 | Compared to this , the look of anger he had worn when she had first met him in the garden was merely one of passing irritation . |
| 7 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 8 | He remembered their girl as she had been when he first had her through the system in Denver . |
| 9 | It was the gratitude of the star on This is Your Life thanking the village schoolmaster who had first taken him to the theatre . |