Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 32 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 33 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 34 | I took him to the first Giants game when he was three . |
| 35 | And as part of the deal , I had some petty cash with which to buy them all sandwiches and coffee so they could get changed or dressed while they ate and I took them to the next job if they had one , or wherever they wanted to go . |
| 36 | I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office . |
| 37 | ‘ Not unless I do it in the next three months , ’ she told him . |
| 38 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 39 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 40 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
| 41 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 42 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 43 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 44 | ‘ Well , like , ten minutes ago , because I need it for the next programme . ’ |
| 45 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 46 | ‘ I closed it after the first year . |
| 47 | This degree is an exciting new venture , and I see myself as the first of many lay people who will benefit from the training here ’ . |
| 48 | ‘ I wanted him in the first place , ’ said Graham , ‘ but the management had already cast Cy Grant . |
| 49 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |