Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
| 2 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 3 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 4 | You will save yourself much time and trouble if you have a course of lessons from a qualified teacher ( all the information you need is in the next chapter ) . |
| 5 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 6 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 7 | Antenor 's were returned to Athens after Alexander 's conquest , and stood beside their successors in Hellenistic and Roman times , but we know that the copies we have are from the second pair because they correspond to sketches on Athenian vases of the fifth century when the others were not available . |
| 8 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 9 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |