Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked her to marry me that first night . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I actually asked her to marry me that first night , and she said yes , ’ says Barry . |
| 4 | ‘ So you were following me that first night , and you were in the Piazzale Roma to — ’ |
| 5 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 6 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 7 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 8 | " You told me that last month , so you did . " |
| 9 | She told me that last week ! |
| 10 | I found peasants who sheltered and fed me that next day . |
| 11 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 12 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 13 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 14 | His Carnival ( my own first choice when Building a Library for BBC Radio 3 ) , too , is alive with gaiety and passion . |
| 15 | My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill . |
| 16 | When he came to write Paradise Lost , Milton on four occasions deliberately spoke in his own person in a way very close to the opening of Lucidas , or to the programme which that last sentence suggests to us . |
| 17 | He immediately satisfied himself that first aid was being rendered . |
| 18 | The means by which this last aim is achieved is called ‘ differencing ’ . |
| 19 | Ways in which this Third Area are used by people in enterprises have been identified by a retired Tavistock Institute colleague , Isabel Menzies . |
| 20 | In it you made no mention of the way in which some Third World leaders are attempting to redress the political imbalance between North and South by resorting to the terrorist tactic of hostage-taking . |
| 21 | Name the novel ( with author ) from which these FIRST LINES come — |
| 22 | But they do n't help theirself these third countries ! |
| 23 | ’ Its success gave Hardy the confidence to revive the manuscript of A Pair of Blue Eyes , put aside after the failure of Desperate Remedies , and embark on his first attempt at a serial , the form in which many 19th century novels originally appeared . |
| 24 | Those whose parents are literate in a language other than English may have observed writing in their own first language , for which there may be a different writing system . |
| 25 | Farm families by contrast increasingly sold off their holdings , in order to secure their own last years and at the same time allow equal treatment of their children . |
| 26 | Art and sights straight out of the history books are to be seen at every turn , yet now these are modern cities too , alive with their own 20th century energy and enthusiasm . |
| 27 | The new Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) was formally inaugurated at a joint convention in February 1990 [ see pp. 37187-88 ; 37247-48 ] , and held its own first convention in May [ see pp. 37456-57 ] . |
| 28 | While firmly governed by the discipline of the market place , this would offer its own third way between the glaring inefficiencies of state capitalism , Italian style , and the short-comings of classic private enterprise where the interests of employees can be so easily trampled upon . |
| 29 | ICL will hand its own third party distribution operations over to Technology , which will continue to be run by Derek Lewis and his team . |
| 30 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |