Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 2 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 3 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 4 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 5 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 6 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 7 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 8 | Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again . |
| 9 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 10 | Her crew danced to their tasks , and I understood for the first time the meaning of the Indonesian words for " crewman " — " anak prahu " , literally " child of the prahu " . |
| 11 | Then the doctor suggested he and I went into the next room for an examination of the condemned woman . |
| 12 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
| 13 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 14 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 15 | When MacMinimum and I rode through the next day , they were pulling the walls down and even uprooting the foundations . |
| 16 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 17 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
| 18 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 19 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 20 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 22 | Now again , if it 'd been a full interview you might have death and service benefits and things of that nature which might and then when er I tapped it was obvious that you were gon na go for ANNA and you squashed from the second appointment right to the very end in the space of the two minutes . |
| 23 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 24 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 25 | Half an hour later , the book slipped out of her hand and she fell into the first of the night 's uneasy periods of slumber . |
| 26 | It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come . |
| 27 | There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went . |
| 28 | Nothing further was said either to or by our guests , and they drove off the next day with many felicitations and expressions of gratitude . |
| 29 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | In patients C , E , and F with high values in the test it was difficult to control the infection and they died on the second , 134th , and 95th day after operation respectively . |