Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day .
2 I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project .
3 Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 .
4 Okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then I asked you to make a first presentation .
5 His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump .
6 Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day .
7 After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations .
8 The Germans left us to pull the last rope down and headed off without us , leaving us temporarily disenchanted with international fraternity .
9 Uncle wanted me to have a twenty-first party but 1 August is an inconvenient date because it 's usually in the middle of haytiming , so we did n't bother .
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