Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 2 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 3 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 4 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 5 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 6 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 7 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 8 | It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning . |
| 9 | A fisherman unloading boxes of fish , shimmering in the arc lights of the pier , told me the next one was not until midday the following day . |
| 10 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 11 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 12 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 13 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 14 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 16 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 18 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 19 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 20 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 21 | Mr Ward told The Independent : ‘ Mr Rowland himself telephoned me the next day , said he was appalled at what had happened to my daughter , and gave me his direct line telephone number , saying he would be there every day from 9 to 6 . |
| 22 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 23 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 24 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |
| 25 | I hated it the first time . |
| 26 | He returned them the next day , asking for a refund . |
| 27 | ‘ I heard you the first time , boy . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I heard you the first time , ’ her mother said . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I heard you the first time . |
| 30 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |