Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 2 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 3 | In consequence , I was particularly disappointed you were not able to accept the invitation I 'd extended via the boys last year . |
| 4 | Clearly his gentler behaviour when he 'd returned to the hut last night had been an aberration . |
| 5 | The leader of this threat is Nik Aziz Nik Mat , a humble-mannered man who was elected chief minister of Kelantan after a working life spent teaching in the mosque next to his birthplace . |
| 6 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 7 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 8 | Hell , I was meant to be looking after him and then you both started talking in the room next to mine . |
| 9 | I meant to go to the bank last , I meant to get cash for that guy but I 'll make him a cheque . |
| 10 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 11 | Barney had flown to the States last Thursday , and she was driving to London later that Tuesday to the flat where he and Cara lived . |
| 12 | From the letter Brian had received from the newspaper last November , we knew that his sisters and friends were working for him and we had also heard that Jill , Nick Toksvig and other friends were active on my behalf . |
| 13 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 14 | It was since that child had come into the house last night . |
| 15 | Though she was only a part-time whore who ‘ had to stand at the washtub next day . ’ |
| 16 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 17 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 18 | If Club Med or Universal Studios had thought of the idea first and sited it in Europe , it would probably have attracted government subsidies . |
| 19 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 20 | Mansell , who had led from the record 14th pole position start of his season , had been resisting persistent challenges from Senna before the pair tangled . |
| 21 | Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action . |
| 22 | Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action . |
| 23 | Murray , he alleged , then had gone to the bothy next door where he had injected three men with heroin . |
| 24 | More than 300,000 Hindus had converged on the town last week to destroy the temple . |
| 25 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |
| 26 | Rita Quick reported that the Teacher Training Course had reached the stage when the first intake of students would soon be completing their training and three had qualified in the examination last November . |
| 27 | The Westinghouse Signal company , based in Chippenham , Wiltshire , refused to comment on the contract last night , saying : ‘ This issue is sensitive . ’ |
| 28 | The Roman city of Aurae Phiala remained closed to the public next day , and for several days following , an apologetic notice on the gate making known the fact to a largely indifferent general public . |
| 29 | Patrick intended to get to the suspects first . |