Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 2 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 3 | I take it as a last question , comment . |
| 4 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 5 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 6 | Boulestin 's idea was that while you were at it you made — as in a great many of his recipes — enough of this mixture ( he treats smoked cod 's roe and anchovy fillets in precisely the same manner ) for two meals : you serve it as a first course , with toast , for two very differently composed lunches . |
| 7 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 8 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 9 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 10 | If they 're all on a par , we take them on a first come , first served basis . |
| 11 | We regard it as a first step , good though not big , towards equal treatment for all alcoholic products . |
| 12 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 13 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 14 | But as he drove himself into a last titanic effort to surface into the light , the pain began to divide and concentrate itself in three separate areas of his body ; his head , his right arm and his chest . |