Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion that he might make any joke , except an obscene one , I dismissed without a second thought . |
| 2 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 3 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 4 | no , well I would n't mind going there , but , I meant for a first holiday , a little holiday I mean you enjoyed that did last April did n't you ? |
| 5 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 6 | ‘ I went to a third doctor and said , ‘ I 've got a parasite , probably a botfly larva , whose life-cycle is … ’ and the doctor said : ‘ Botfly ? |
| 7 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 8 | I take as a second period the ten years thereafter until the parents are about their early seventies . |
| 9 | I could n't miss this , Watson , so I jumped into a third taxi . |
| 10 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 11 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 12 | It makes you feel like a second class citizen to be disabled . |
| 13 | Also , if you know of a third party who is about to pay your debtor you can similarly arrest that money . |
| 14 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 15 | She went for a last walk with him — and they never returned . |
| 16 | I 'd sue you , strip you bare without a second thought . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Sure ? ’ she said for a second time . |
| 18 | YOU COME WITH A FIRST CLASS PEDIGREE |
| 19 | We embark on a second burn . |
| 20 | We go for a second hand suite as well or |
| 21 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 22 | They moved into a second floor flat , so Dawn now had to run her own home and travel to work each day . |
| 23 | The question which remains to be solved is : were these phrases added to existing documents in 1070–72 to support Lanfranc 's claim to primacy over the whole area of the British Isles , or were they added as a last resort in 1120 , when the claim which Lanfranc , Anselm and Archbishop Ralph had all supported was facing final and irrevocable defeat ? |
| 24 | Lorton won nearly two pounds from the fruit machine so they celebrated with a third pint . |
| 25 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 26 | People do n't mind being referred if it 's something that is genuinely but say they phone Leeds and Leeds do n't know and Leeds refer them to a number they think it is and then they refer to a third number then somebody gets . |
| 27 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 28 | They rely on a third property : elastic energy . |
| 29 | They knew of a fourth case , later confirmed to be that of Keith Parchment , and believed the fifth referred to the Brown case , which technically involved two separate trials . |
| 30 | When students ask " how do you start an essay ? " they usually mean what should they write for a first sentence . |