Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was afraid the delay over the book had lost him the opportunity of reaching the city in time to take part in any meaningful work , and promised to join the next summer 's dig in June . ’ |
| 2 | Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day . |
| 3 | Alistair telephoned — He then discussed the matter with Hazel and decided to take the next day off work . |
| 4 | Dana was opinionated and liked to have the last word in an argument . |
| 5 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 6 | She was due on March the nineteenth , and had reached the twenty-eighth week of her pregnancy . |
| 7 | Janet added : ‘ My husband had a wicked sense of humour and had to have the last laugh in life and death . |
| 8 | Alas , many others had already made their judgment on the flimsy evidence of that supposed phone call … and had found the next King guilty . |
| 9 | I do remember we 'd already put his full name on the car and had to remove the last part of it . ’ |
| 10 | The first letter is very probably authentic , the second probably forged and intended to reinforce the first letter . |
| 11 | EAST GERMANY yesterday effectively barred its citizens from Czechoslovakia , but agreed to allow the second wave of refugees crammed into the West German embassy in Prague to leave for the West . |
| 12 | I 've written the whole section as an identical pattern of pull-offs ( with one note in parentheses , because I think that 's what Cliff was aiming for , but missed getting the first lick on string 1 to sound out — there were no drop-ins on recording sessions in 1956 ! ) . |