Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
| 2 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 3 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 4 | But I 've enjoyed being here , I hope you 've enjoyed it as much as I have , and I look forward to the next time that I 'm sitting in the hot seat ; until then , from me , goodbye . |
| 5 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 6 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 7 | ‘ I feared even at the eleventh hour that it would not be possible — and I knew not when we could meet else . ’ |
| 8 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 9 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 10 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 11 | Well than the other the other thing which I think particularly in the last one that we did which was finished back in March , we kept on changing the specification , because it started off such a such and specification and it was going to the Hanover Fair in Germany |
| 12 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | I move now to the second strand of my paper : a consideration of the 1988 Act . |
| 14 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 15 | I have right from the first . |
| 16 | I got to France on the 15th May 1915 and I stayed there until the 21st February 1919 . |
| 17 | When the engagements are abroad , I work feverishly in the last few days and nights to create a reasonably finished piece of work — just in case we crash . |
| 18 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 19 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 20 | ‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 22 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 24 | And , as you descend steeply into the next valley , and round the Norman church , a line of eight gargoyles — one a benign lion , one a madman in mid-vomit , one a splendid , arrogant griffon . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 26 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 27 | And finally , I you looking forward to the next year ? |
| 28 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 29 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 30 | What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use . |