Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You came to me first ? ’ |
| 32 | If you want to get a grasp of what is happening in West Sussex , there is a useful one-page summary in the Housing and Environment the Housing Report which came to us last , at the last meeting . |
| 33 | ‘ In Rome , I 'll be going out to win but I 'm looking on it first and foremost as the chance to get the feel of the hurdles again . ’ |
| 34 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 35 | He said I was to talk to you first . |
| 36 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 37 | But we 're going to talk to you first , and then you can start putting it behind you . |
| 38 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 39 | On the spur of the moment he said : ‘ I would like to talk to you first . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 41 | So we 've got a pile of bones , a pile of building material , lumps of wood , what do you think we might do to them next ? |
| 42 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 43 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 44 | TYNEMOUTH beer festival had a curfew imposed on it last month by local magistrates . |
| 45 | ‘ When you were shouting at me last night I realised , perhaps for the first time , just exactly what you 'd gone through all your life . |
| 46 | Looking at them next stage , distribution centre then are we ? |
| 47 | So we 're looking at it first , I I think in the end , there are schemes that we 've got to put on to the back burner , or the , until such times Lincoln develops further , and there is further development . |
| 48 | For this reason , it is better to refer at some stage to the primary source of an idea , even if you came across it first in a secondary source . |
| 49 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 50 | ‘ André and I — you have the wrong impression of what happened between us last night . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ I must admit I thought that in retrospect you might resent what happened between us last night . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 53 | ‘ He wants Perdita to play for him next year . |
| 54 | Some ideas just seem so good , you ca n't understand why on one else thought of them first . |
| 55 | When it launched a complete make-up range last autumn , it introduced ‘ Mirror Image Consultation ’ , a new way of selling which is so simple that all the other companies were left wondering why they had n't thought of it first . |
| 56 | It is clear from this that for Rolle prayer was the most important exercise by which the reality of faith is realised , which is why he deals with it first after the section on the necessity for patience in adversity : Prayer is the means by which the transforming dynamic of the love of God is accessed in the innermost marrow ( " inhirliest mergh " ) of our hearts ( 7.118.28 ) and labour becomes light ( 11.123.30 ) . |
| 57 | ‘ Did I tell you what happened to me last week . |
| 58 | It happened to me last week . ’ |
| 59 | Hi , my name is Amy , something very strange happened to me last night . |
| 60 | Do you know what happened to us last night ? ’ |