Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 2 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Oh yes , as I , as I missed the train comma , I decided to catch the next one comma , |
| 5 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 6 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 7 | I had enjoyed the last two months greatly but the journey , though arduous , had involved no real danger . |
| 8 | Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : — |
| 9 | A woman told how she had spent the last fifteen years of her life ‘ allowing my husband to make choices for me ’ . |
| 10 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 11 | She had spent the last six months learning to help many such at St Sylvester 's . |
| 12 | She had spent the last ten days in bed , suffering from shock , the after-reaction fierce , frightening . |
| 13 | Co-director Deborah Coles recounted how she had spent the last 3 days attending the inquest on a man known to be at risk , who committed suicide in prison . |
| 14 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 15 | By the time we had dressed the first grey light of the day had appeared at the window . |
| 16 | In 1870 they helped organize the first All-Russian Industrial Exhibition and the first All-Russian Congress of Manufacturers and People Interested in Native Industry . |
| 17 | I expect they wanted to watch the last few matches play the concluding holes . |
| 18 | They had booked a Toyota camper van and told the hire company they intended spending the next three weeks touring New Zealand . |
| 19 | Somehow he 'd scored the first small , barely discernible victory . |
| 20 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 21 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 22 | And there was also an opportunity for Aberdeen and the surrounding region to look to its future as it prepared to host the next Offshore Europe in 1995 . |
| 23 | However , it did mark the first major overhaul of the Treaties of Rome , it reformed EC institutions to some extent and it succeeded in keeping the members united . |
| 24 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 25 | He had completed the second nine in 29 for a round of 68 and a total of 273 , finishing with six successive birdies . |
| 26 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |
| 27 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 28 | He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference , four days of gin and oratory . |
| 29 | He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant . |
| 30 | Mr. Duggan said that he had enjoyed the last four years . |