Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 2 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 3 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 4 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 5 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 7 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 8 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |
| 9 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 10 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 11 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 12 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 13 | At last he was freed , and gritting his teeth , Jack took the small forearm firmly in his hands and lifted it quickly off the last spike . |
| 14 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 15 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 16 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 17 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 18 | But Bosnich almost threw it away in the 38th minute when he fumbled a Jeremy Goss shot and was grateful to see Earl Barrett scramble the ball past the foot of his own post . |
| 19 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 20 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 21 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 22 | Knocked them out in the tenth round . |
| 23 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 24 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 25 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 26 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 27 | Here are a number of mill sites dating to the Domesday era ; the cloth industry firmly settled itself here by the 12–13th centuries . |
| 28 | Lee Philpott pulled one back in the 73rd minute and then super sub John Francis scored twice to grab an unlikely draw . |
| 29 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 30 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |