Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company 's complaints department phoned Susan the next day to tell her who to contact . |
| 2 | I went back and told Lilian the second twin , a boy , had died because the cord was round its neck . |
| 3 | The phone woke Ruth the next morning . |
| 4 | But I told Una the next morning when all of you left the house . |
| 5 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 6 | Jill handed Lindsey the last file before she led the smiling woman out . |
| 7 | The woman used a spare key to open the back door , retrieved the telephone and called the police who arrested Smith the next day . |
| 8 | Between 1965 and 1967 the Direction Technique des Engins ( DTEn ) of the Ministry of Defence launched four Diamant A rockets ; one carried the satellite ( 26 November 1965 ) , dubbed Asterix — whose successful launch made France the third country to launch an artificial earth satellite . |
| 9 | It is no accident that she chose Friday the 13th to resign , writes Tony Samstag . |
| 10 | So thought I. The first part was okay when we got the squad marching the 50 yards , but I was the only one that did not see that someone had dug a trench in the line of march , and in one step leapt over the trench in perfect style . |
| 11 | Peter saw Kate the next evening , which was a Thursday , again on Saturday , three times the following week , and twice the week after that . |
| 12 | He told the 114 delegates assembled at the resort 's Savoy Hotel how the environmental group had regarded BNFL when he took office in 1986 : ‘ You remember , they re-named April the first , my first day in office , British Nuclear Fools Day . |
| 13 | An unnecessary penalty conceded in front of their posts brought Castleford the first points . |
| 14 | In 1533 the Company of Leathersellers offered Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn a great banquet to celebrate Anne 's coronation on Whit Sunday in Westminster Hall . |
| 15 | The teams made Darlington the first club ever to collect medals in the championship in the same season . |
| 16 | The Matra-Ford proved even more reliable the following season , as car and driver swept the board with six wins which gave Stewart the first of his three world titles , winning by 26 points from Jacky Ickx ( Bel ) . |
| 17 | Traditionally , a company of White Lions acts as the personal bodyguard of the Phoenix King in honour of the time they saved Caledor the first from Dark Elf assassins . |
| 18 | " Lothar chose the eastern share , then the emperor gave Charles the second part . |
| 19 | The £110m takeover — which made ADT the second largest burglar alarm company in Great Britain — resulted in a £146m goodwill write off in ADT 's 1991 accounts . |
| 20 | ‘ Look at this , ’ said Sarah the next day . |
| 21 | High hopes and summer weather did nothing to encourage circumspection , and by the time Coleridge and Southey left Bath the next morning , with Southey 's dog Rover in attendance , it is likely that some kind of relationship with Sarah was already understood . |
| 22 | In a Christian society one can not avoid the memory of the cock that crowed to Simon Peter just as he denied Christ the third time . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a miracle to me how Hywel got home in that condition , ’ said Lydia the next day . |
| 24 | Robins interrupted my thoughts by saying , ‘ Sorry about the word ‘ posh ’ , but I 'd heard before we left Sanderstown the last time that a young man had been appointed assistant to Doctor Reid , and I was a bit surprised when I met you . |
| 25 | That 's what I said Paul the first time |
| 26 | Balboa left Quareca the next day , 25 September . |
| 27 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 28 | On this note the Council broke up , and Anselm left Rome the next day to return to Lyons . |
| 29 | Without time for more discussion , Anselm simply left Rome the next day , to spend the next fifteen months in total inactivity so far as his archbishopric was concerned . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't stay in the World indefinitely , ’ said Michael the next day . |