Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] my [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |
| 2 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 3 | I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] . |
| 4 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 5 | It seemed like my last day had come . |
| 6 | When it came to my fortieth birthday she said , what would you like for your birthday ? |
| 7 | At 8.30 am I drove to my first appointment in Balderton Street , planning to buy a hat at Miss Selfridge afterwards , en route to the filming . |
| 8 | After hours of roaming through booklists and library indices , I came across my second book named Hear The Children Calling by Clare Mcnally . |
| 9 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 10 | I duly arrived for my first drive . |
| 11 | From the force the path left the Pennine Way and climbed towards my next port of call , Crackpot Hall . |
| 12 | That happened in my fourth year on the island . |
| 13 | I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much . |
| 14 | I remember once talking with a woman who replied to my first question , ‘ No , I find it hard to believe . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That 's nothing to worry about — you should have heard what happened at my first interview . ’ |
| 16 | I rushed into my last contract and do n't want to do the same again . ’ |
| 17 | Anyway , mum says I was restless when I returned from my second holiday there . |
| 18 | I returned to my first and most potent objection . |
| 19 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 20 | I lost in my third round . |
| 21 | Then in 1986 I moved down to London , played keyboards with a cabaret group and worked on my second book . ’ |
| 22 | Bowesfield headteacher George Aitken said said : ‘ This started at my last governors ’ meeting . |
| 23 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 24 | I went for my first visit to the therapist feeling panicky , nervous , hopeful and depressed . |
| 25 | I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop . |
| 26 | I bit into my first kourabiè , and gave an appreciative nod . |
| 27 | My interest in scholarship grew in my third and last year as an undergraduate . |
| 28 | ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats . |
| 29 | I went to my first gay pub . |
| 30 | I was only a little girl when I went to my first funeral . |