Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I 'm in the room next door to your present patient , you 'll appreciate my difficulty . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was in the hotel last night . |
| 3 | I am writing direct to say I hope we may meet when you are in the UK next month , and sorry I am you were too busy to manage even a few words on the ‘ phone earlier this week . |
| 4 | ‘ I hear you were on the box last night , ’ said small , cheerful voices in Dyson 's ear . |
| 5 | ‘ Like you were at the tables last night and the night before that ? ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , but you were at the school last year , you had things to do . |
| 7 | She was in the bed next to her . |
| 8 | Do you know who I might see , I might see that girl , Michelle who lived 'cos I saw her last Thursday , she was in the classroom next to us . |
| 9 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 10 | It 's in the minutes last time . |
| 11 | And we 're gon na be , he 's on the earlies next week , and the following week . |
| 12 | It 's very big and cos he 's in the office next door . |
| 13 | Elisabetta was asking her something ; it was about the fireworks last year in the city , off the old harbour wall where they had reflected in the sea . |
| 14 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 15 | It was on the television last night . |
| 16 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 17 | He was in the hall next morning as Maggie came downstairs , and at the sight of her he walked forward to watch her descent . |
| 18 | He was in the third-year sixth when he got his place at Trinity Hall , Cambridge . |
| 19 | Odd you should ask , though , because he was in the shop last Thursday , wanting to talk to Beryl . |
| 20 | You may not believe this , but though Richard and I have now known each other for eighteen years on and off , the first time he kissed me was in the car-park last Thursday . ’ |