Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 2 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 3 | After a night of endless fun — rounders followed by Cluedo , Cheat and a visit to the Clumber Park Social Club where Ken performed a striking rendition of Wild Thing on his guitar — I felt burnt out the next morning , but everyone else was raring to go . |
| 4 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 5 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 6 | Though everyone was behind Sheehan as she strove to become only the thirteenth entrant to the Hall of Fame , it was difficult not to feel for Dawn Coe-Jones . |
| 7 | As soon as she had forced down the last of her food , she pushed her plate away and stood up . |
| 8 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 9 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 10 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 11 | They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches . |
| 12 | Now they had to work out the 24th number . |
| 13 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 14 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 15 | ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach . |
| 16 | He started to work out the next stage . |
| 17 | ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’ |
| 18 | However , when Raymond Plant of Southampton University wrote a Fabian Tract on the subject , he chose to emphasise not the third element in the French Revolutionary triad but rather the third element in T.H. Marshall 's triad of civil , political and social citizenship . |
| 19 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 20 | He had called to ask her advice about the small dinner party he intended to give in the next week or so . |