Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 3 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 4 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 5 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 6 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 7 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 8 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 9 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 10 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 11 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 12 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 13 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 14 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 15 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 16 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 17 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 19 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 20 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 21 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |
| 23 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 25 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 26 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 27 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
| 28 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 29 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 30 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |