Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was 21 when I first wrote for the NME . |
| 2 | We all returned to the RV and spent next day servicing vehicles etc … . |
| 3 | We all loaded into the Volvo and went down to Shellerton Manor where everyone trooped in to see Harry . |
| 4 | Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night . |
| 5 | We last met on the Sunday before his death . |
| 6 | At the end of October they all met at the Daytona Raceway , opposite the B.B.C. Television Centre in West London , and spent the morning watching and acting in humorous scenarios presented by each of the branch teams . |
| 7 | They all worked at the BUPA South Bank Hospital in Worcester , and were returning after a day 's training at a hospital in Cardiff when the crash happened . |
| 8 | Singer then asked respondents to say how they first heard about the Detroit riot , and what details they were initially given . |
| 9 | Such companies have at times faced a petroleum revenue tax rate of over 90 per cent , considerably in excess of anything they were led to expect when they first went into the North Sea . |
| 10 | Before lunch Jones made the necessary arrangements and they both glanced at the Sunday newspapers , apparently for the first time . |
| 11 | It has been exported since 1817 , when it first went to the USA and Canada , soon spreading into Mexico and South America and readily adapting to environments which ranged from very cold uplands to hot , semi-desert plains . |
| 12 | The mechanism that captured the attention of the micro industry when it first appeared in the Sharp CE-150 printer was the four pen printer/plotter . |
| 13 | He elaborated the point he first made in the February that Gothic architecture expressed a spirit ‘ opposed to liberty and the true interests and prosperity of a Protestant country ’ . |
| 14 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 15 | Born and educated in South Africa he first came to the UK as private secretary to the ambassador . |
| 16 | He chose a piece of smooth parchment and began to write down everything that had happened since he first went to the Springall mansion . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh no , I 've known Paul since 1984 when he first appeared on the LA scene in an excellent band called Black Sheep . |
| 18 | Despite the reservations of his trainer he next went for the Melbourne Cup : he started even-money favourite , but pulled his way to the front in a slowly run race against the wishes of his jockey and faded in the straight to finish third . |