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Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	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 .
9	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 .
10	unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit ,
11	We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered .
12	Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford .
13	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 .
14	He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot .
15	They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago .
16	Portadown piled them up in the first half .
17	Knocked them out in the tenth round .
18	Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair .
19	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 .
20	He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders .
21	For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place .
22	I watched him carefully in the next few days .
23	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 .
24	She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On .
25	No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’
26	We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north .
27	The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time .
28	Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time .
29	The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house .
30	IT was out with the old and in with the new and despite the result , Darlington manager Ray Hankin still found much to praise about Quakers ' performance after another home defeat sent them closer to the Fourth Division .