Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 2 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 3 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 4 | Armed with my definition of a manager and my time-span measuring instrument , I then bumped into the second surprising finding — repeatedly confirmed — about layering in managerial hierarchies : the boundaries between successive managerial layers occur at certain specific time-span increments , just as ice changes to water and water to steam at certain specific temperatures . |
| 5 | I never knew in the first place ! ’ |