Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [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 | If Punch dies , how do I keep sane for the next 40 years ! ! |
| 4 | ‘ I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game . |
| 5 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 6 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 9 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 10 | Sixty-seven of them and you get sick at the sixty-eighth ’ , it is as if he is saying it to us over his shoulder as he bends down to examine another body . |
| 11 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 12 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 13 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |
| 14 | I hope that these very brief summaries of our business do not leave you feeling depressed after the fourth year of recession in our industry because we all have a good deal to be optimistic about . |
| 15 | She remained feverish over the next 14 hours with cold peripheries and an arterial blood pressure of 90/50 mm Hg . |
| 16 | find a cure erm perhaps we should try and think about why we get depressed in the first place , I know there 's lot of people who co , here have had problems . |
| 17 | Then we fell foul of the 16th . |
| 18 | What we tend to do we get bored after the first two thousand and we start writing people letters . |
| 19 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 20 | Will they feel empty on the last child 's departure and give substance to what is often called the ‘ empty nest ’ syndrome of marriage ? |
| 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 | He look different from the last time me and him were mates cos he 's got older . |
| 29 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 30 | 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 . |