Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Anglesey meanwhile , have two debutantes in their line-up one of them the first RAF Valley player to be selected for a decade . |
| 3 | Erm but er I think when you say about being confrontational there 's if you 've got a client in front of you the last thing that you want to do is have erm a confrontation with them |
| 4 | She had seen little of him the first two days . |
| 5 | He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day . |
| 6 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 7 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 8 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 10 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 11 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 12 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 13 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 14 | He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time . |
| 15 | ‘ You were strange with me the last days and I was being so awful . |
| 16 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 17 | Peter Rainford was unpleasantly attentive but his wife was quite happy with Felipe , and Maggie 's heart sank as they arranged to go round the Alhambra with them the next day . |
| 18 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 19 | Have a word with them the next time you 're in |
| 20 | I mean I have n't been to Guildford for oh god I do n't know when I think probably with you the last time I went to Guildford . |
| 21 | ‘ I fell in love with her the first time I saw her , ’ Jean was saying . |
| 22 | Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time . |
| 23 | She caught on pretty quickly , so I would go home each nigh to teach myself something new so I could share it with her the next day . |
| 24 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 25 | Just ring him up and have lunch with him the next day and it 'll be all right . ’ |
| 26 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 27 | I was lucky enough not to be court martialled , quite apart from getting away with it the first night . |
| 28 | He then bought a health physics monitor to help his neutron detection and returned to Utah with it the next day , 15 February . |
| 29 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 30 | I got right into it the first couple of series . |