Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we skimmed along the last hundred metres , I said to the lieutenant , ‘ Tuan , have you something the boy can put over his shirt ? |
| 2 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 3 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 4 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 5 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
| 6 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 7 | There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went . |
| 8 | It has gone in repaying the overseas debt that we inherited from the last Labour Government . |
| 9 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |
| 10 | At 7pm we crawled along the last golden beach , clocked up the 19th mile , and collapsed . |
| 11 | we left with the last drunk |
| 12 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 13 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 14 | All the discussion we had in the last few days . |
| 15 | Fred , of Fence Houses , County Durham , said : ‘ We queued for the last three weeks and left empty handed . |