Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 2 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 3 | Rain said : ‘ I found out during the last few days . |
| 4 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 5 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 6 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 7 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 8 | When I came out with the next platitude ( ‘ How are you ? ’ ) they lifted and turned towards me . |
| 9 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 10 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 11 | Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm |
| 12 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 13 | I looked back at the first . |
| 14 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 15 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 16 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 17 | I thought back to the 17th and remembered Lee 's words : ‘ Mr Lu does n't want to win the Open Championship . ’ |
| 18 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 19 | I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run . |
| 20 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 21 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 22 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 23 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 24 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 25 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 26 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 27 | But , just as at Lani 's , I backed out at the last minute . |
| 28 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 29 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 30 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |