Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
2 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
3 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
4 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
5 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
6 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
7 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
8 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
9 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
10 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
11 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
12 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
13 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
14 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
15 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
16 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
17 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
18 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
19 | Having supplied them with a fifth chair , Amiss made them generally comfortable and vanished noiselessly through the nearest door . |
20 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
21 | Thus if a bailee negligently allows goods in his charge to be destroyed the plaintiff 's loss is just the same as if the bailee had wrongfully sold them to a third party but there is no conversion because the negligent ( as opposed to deliberate ) destruction is not an assertion of any rights in the goods . |
22 | And the sold them for a third profit so what did he sell them for ? |
23 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
24 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
25 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
26 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
27 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
28 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
29 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |
30 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |