Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 2 | Well I mean I , I did n't empty the last packet . |
| 3 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
| 4 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 5 | I did n't mind because I did n't like the next lesson anyway . |
| 6 | I did n't take the first bus , or the second . |
| 7 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 8 | I did n't know the next thing . |
| 9 | Billingsley rephrased his insolent question as though I had not understood the first version . |
| 10 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Oh you 'd better do the last one Doctor |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , if you 've now decided that you are n't prepared to look after Emma and Sophie , if you do n't care about their future welfare or happiness , then I suggest you 'd better catch the next plane back to England . ’ |
| 13 | Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed . |
| 14 | If that Custom House clock was before twelve o'clock you was finished : you did n't get the next day 's pay . |
| 15 | Just in case you did n't hear the first time . |
| 16 | Letting me think that you slept with so many men you did n't have the first idea who the father was ! ’ |
| 17 | Well you did n't like the last one we went to did you ? |
| 18 | I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next fish . |
| 19 | I said she , she might well come back to you I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next dish he looked horrified , you know , as far as he 's concerned its all love and glamour . |
| 20 | She did n't notice the second SS officer raise her skirt to her waist , and mount the bench above her head . |
| 21 | She did n't know the first thing about him , after all . |
| 22 | What was she doing , anyway , going out with a man she did n't know the first thing about ? |
| 23 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |
| 24 | All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk ! |
| 25 | On second thoughts , she wished she had not uttered the last sentence . |
| 26 | Hence the dress and hat which sent the photographers into ecstasy in Melbourne and generally created far more attention and comment than the match in which she had successfully defeated the first of her 1991 Grand Slam titles . |
| 27 | She remain uncertain still what was to be done with it , though she consoled herself with the thought that in entering the court of Le Grand Jeu and submitting to its verdict , she had already taken the first tentative steps . |
| 28 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 29 | She had just stuck the first stamp on the envelope when a friendly voice behind her said : ‘ Can you manage all right , missy , or do you want a lift up ? ’ |
| 30 | She had just read the last paragraph when the kitchen door opened and Matey entered , far earlier than she normally did , to stare at the unlikely scene before her : Dr Neil characteristically leaning back in his wooden Windsor armchair , McAllister sitting on her stool , reading the paper , the used coffee-cups and the empty biscuit plate sitting between them . |