Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Captain Robins drove me around the island last night , ’ I said . |
| 2 | The adjutant directed him to the hospital next door , giving him written instructions on how to find the ward . |
| 3 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 4 | Once they were back in the billet Charlie folded up his best suit and placed it under the bed next to the one Tommy had settled on , then swaggered around the room in his new uniform . |
| 5 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 6 | It 's up there , I saw it on the door last night . |
| 7 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 8 | My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House . |
| 9 | The equally indomitable Dunwoody had his second fall of the day on Calabrese and completed a painful hat-trick when King of The Lot unseated him in the Tote 7th Handicap Chase , won by Howe Street . |
| 10 | He punched me in the head first , from the side . ’ |
| 11 | Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold . |