Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 2 | I first realised it the day of Len 's funeral , when I spilled the beans . |
| 3 | Yes , but when we first got it the radiator was n't on it was the summer time |
| 4 | Sir Richard Hadlee is another who was nowhere near his knighthood as Test cricket 's leading wicket-taker when Notts first tossed him the new ball . |
| 5 | Weeks of painstaking work on the complex choreography of her 40 minute show pay off as she struts , high-kicks and glides around the tiny , tightly guarded stage singing the song that first gave her the confidence to dream of a career as a pop star . |
| 6 | It read as if having to play auntie instead of Schumann first gave her the idea of coming over — Here 's our hunter home from the hill . ’ |
| 7 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 8 | It was the Wester Hailes housing scheme in Edinburgh Pentlands that first gave me the notion that something was up . |
| 9 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
| 10 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
| 11 | But there was no denying Miss Higgins and a par five at the last gave her the trophy she had her heart set on . |