Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to win my first GP and better myself further . |
| 3 | By the time I came to do my first talk , her feathers were a lovely tawny colour with large patches flecked with grey and smaller specks of black and white . |
| 4 | I immediately set about trying to fulfil Mr Farraday 's wishes , but as you know , finding recruits of a satisfactory standard is no easy task nowadays , and although I was pleased to hire Rosemary and Agnes on Mrs Clements 's recommendation , I had got no further by the time I came to have my first business meeting with Mr Farraday during the short preliminary visit he made to our shores in the spring of last year . |
| 5 | I returned to face my next class with wildly beating heart and in a state of utter confusion , of mingled joy , misery , hope and despair . |
| 6 | But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night . |
| 7 | ‘ The day we saw the outstanding location of Crystal Springs House was the day I decided to develop my first hotel . |
| 8 | ‘ Yesterday probably because the photos were n't in the house when I called to see him last night . |
| 9 | Oh yes , I meant to ring you last night , but things |
| 10 | I had to admit my first impression was not quite what I had expected : instead of bold cliffs and mountain peaks , all we could see from the heaving deck of the boat was a seemingly endless beach of black shingle fringed by white breakers . |
| 11 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 12 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you will , Miss Honey , because I have to use your first name to make things rhyme and that 's why I do n't want to say it . ’ |
| 14 | I intended to tell you last evening , but what with one thing and another — ’ He released her chin and slid his fingers up the side of her face to cup it . |
| 15 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
| 16 | The good stuff is here , where you 're talking about sixty six percent of you trailer as being Express , you 're talking about the consignments on a trailer , the items on a trailer , and then that , the revenue per trailer , why do you want to move it next day ? |
| 17 | ‘ Where was all that kindness , courtesy , and respect when you tried to seduce me last night ? ’ she demanded , glaring at him . |
| 18 | You wait to see them next morning , but they do n't come back . |
| 19 | ‘ Sarah did n't know he was n't home until she went to call him next morning and found he had n't slept in his bed . |
| 20 | Do n't wait until you have a whole bookful of data or a whole month has gone by before you start to make your first workchart . |
| 21 | ‘ My name is Fa … — hmn , ’ she coughed to cover her first mistake — and that was before she got started ! |
| 22 | Clearing out all the manure into the er big heap down into the fields where you wanted to spread them next Winter . |
| 23 | You wanted to kill yourself last night , did n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | You have to see them first hand . |
| 25 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 26 | In either March or April 1994 we hope to welcome our first lady speaker ( apart from Janet Preshous , who has already given a joint talk with her husband . |
| 27 | We returned to spend our last night on the top floor of the now abandoned community house , in what was now the distinctly eerie Rante . |
| 28 | We decided to do one last detour before heading south and remembering advice we had been given , we headed past Kirkenes towards the Pasvik Elv , the valley and river which form the border between Norway and Russia . |
| 29 | have n't got any staff to do it this , we managed to do it last year . |
| 30 | This meant we had to complete our first Report in five months and our second only seven months later . |