Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 3 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 4 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 5 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 6 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 7 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 8 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 9 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 10 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |
| 11 | Jarvis saw them get into the next car and on an impulse he jumped up and followed them . |
| 12 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 13 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 14 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 15 | I just thought it followed on the next page there |
| 16 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 17 | ‘ When we finally got there , tired and bedraggled , the custodian sent us packing on the next ferry because we did n't have the 2/6 entry fee ! ’ |
| 18 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 19 | ‘ How did you answer about the last — about presenting me to him ? ’ |
| 20 | Did you come to the last history meeting |
| 21 | Now what did we say about the next lesson ? |
| 22 | To encourage Lewis in this direction , Eliot gave him to review in the next year Egyptian Mummies and Essays on the Evolution of Man by Elliot Smith , as well as Medicine , Magic and Religion by W. H. R. Rivers . |
| 23 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 24 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 25 | How much did he earn in the fourth week ? |
| 26 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 27 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 28 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 29 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 30 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |