Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’
2 He said that he had taken into account the views of local authorities put to him since he met them last year , he might have taken in to account of course , we did n't accept any of the er er observations .
3 Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night .
4 ‘ May I ask you what you asked me last week ?
5 A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ?
6 So he got me last nights , we 're gon na have to go tomorrow so we 'll have to go tonight now , got ta tell !
7 ‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims .
8 I got them last night , you know .
9 Er er got them last week from Freeman Hardy and Willis .
10 I there soon experienced my first dealings with corporal punishment .
11 Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie .
12 From then on the hospital became my second home .
13 I glanced at my reflection to admire the effect and then I got my second shock that evening .
14 South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever .
15 On the first Thursday , I got my first dose of an ‘ on-call ’ period .
16 Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse .
17 Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval .
18 And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way .
19 Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash .
20 When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack .
21 ‘ I suppose I really understood what was at stake when I got my first glimpse of the castle , ’ she admitted , unable to disguise a rather wry smile .
22 After acquiring the relevant paper qualifications in 1979 I got my first sales and marketing job in 1980 .
23 I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster .
24 I got my first taste of the Masters with Tom .
25 Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands .
26 When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen .
27 So I got my I got my first christmas present .
28 I first became involved with releasing barn owls into the wild about two years ago , shortly after i got my first breeding pair , Barny and Mrs Barny .
29 Kapil said : ‘ When I got my 400th Test wicket in Perth last year I promised Sunny that one day both records would belong to Indians and I intend to honour that .
30 Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one
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