Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 2 | My father gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday . |
| 3 | Aunt Anna gave it to me for my tenth birthday . |
| 4 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 5 | Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of them for their first grading exam . |
| 6 | However , a letter is sent out to newly qualified drivers advising they have a qualified instructor with them for their first motorway trips . |
| 7 | Wiser writers , like Frank Ronan , leave them for their third or fourth . |
| 8 | Surprise Offer was running without blinkers and Hannon said : ‘ He 'll definitely wear them for his next race , the Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot . ’ |
| 9 | If you used floats on your model during the initial learning period and have since removed them , it would be well worth replacing them for your first circuits . |
| 10 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 11 | A point of interest to myself is that our driver , Howard Bounds , shared the next bed to me during my last stay in hospital . |
| 12 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 13 | Butch hit a decent shot down the first , and then turned round to ask me about his second shot . |
| 14 | It 's really horrible , he was telling me about it last night , and I was really scared |
| 15 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 16 | He has in fact got a job , now his father mentions it , and an astonishingly good one , too , for someone in his first year down from university . |
| 17 | When the wind dropped an occasional rumble in the distance reminded them of their first taste of war 's excitements . |
| 18 | Also , you could put your regular fans on a mailing list , writing to them every month to inform them of your next gigs and urging them to bring more of their friends along , in return for a back stage pass to Wembley when you play there ! |
| 19 | ‘ You remind me of myself last night . |
| 20 | Reminds me of my first branch chair , an ex-miner , who used to give me a lift home in his Jag . |
| 21 | This dress reminds me of my first long dress . |
| 22 | Can you tell me of your first involvement with the support group ? |
| 23 | ‘ Remind me of your last line , Victor . ’ |
| 24 | He got into position ‘ A ’ with everyone of his second shots that day , and that 's the name of the game at Birkdale . |
| 25 | Donne steps forward , his arms relaxing as if to balance himself during his first few faltering steps after centuries of rest in the tomb . |
| 26 | On Sunday 18 April , Dave was preparing himself for his first ever parachute jump to raise money for charity [ and to overcome his own fear of heights and aeroplanes ] when he heard that the jump had been cancelled due to bad weather . |
| 27 | He meticulously prepared himself for his first meeting . |
| 28 | However , since on can alternate also with first and third person pronouns , which like their second person counterparts can also have definite reference , it is not particularly easy to specify tokens of the alternative class ( see Laberge and Sankoff 1980 : 272ff for a large number of examples ) . |
| 29 | An example of one of the more successful RMCs is the Anglian which in its first four years set about becoming a centre of excellence . |
| 30 | The fun starts when you control a team and call all necessary plays , which in my first try resulted in my team performing worse than an infants rounders team against the superbowl winners . |