Example sentences of "[vb past] the [num ord] word " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she read the first word , J O E , her heart gave a great leap . |
| 2 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 3 | He shuddered as he pronounced the last word . |
| 4 | She drew the last word out on a whine . |
| 5 | But , just for your information — ’ she underlined the last word ‘ — I 've known Ace Barton for more than ten years … ’ |
| 6 | He shouted the last word ; then his voice dropping again , he said , ‘ The very smell of you nauseates me ; you stink of death . ’ |
| 7 | He accentuated the last word heavily . |
| 8 | Sprague turned the last word into a throat clearing noise because the minister had finished just a head of him . |
| 9 | She finished the last word . |
| 10 | Bell began to experiment , and within a year , on 10 March 1876 , Watson heard the first words ever spoken on the newly invented telephone , ‘ Come here Watson , I want you . |
| 11 | Zena Murray emphasised the last word with distaste , stepping back to allow the two plain clothes men into Jim Scott 's office . |
| 12 | She stressed the last word . |
| 13 | ‘ But how does a young American lady — ’ and he stressed the last word slightly ‘ — come to be alone and seeking work in London ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ When I was young and foolish ? ’ he stressed the last word with an ironic twitch of his lips . |
| 15 | A frequent fault is to read out passages from textbooks as though they represented the last word on the law . |
| 16 | The big scroll in the frieze between Pope Calixtus II and the Emperor Henry V contained the first words of the text of the Concordat of Worms of 1122 , with the rest of the text to be found elsewhere in the hall . |
| 17 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 18 | Ronald Magill , who later became known to millions of television viewers as Amos Brearly in Emmerdale , was then an actor at the Nottingham Playhouse , as well as its associate director , and spoke the first words in the new theatre . |
| 19 | He spoke the last words grimly . |
| 20 | The quiet north-country voice spoke the last words the criminal was ever to hear . |
| 21 | She invested the last word with as much scorn as she could put into it . |
| 22 | She could not remember any more words , so she said the first words again , quietly but very clearly . |
| 23 | The Britons have never shed barbarism ; they are proud to tell you that Tacitus said the last word about Germans . |
| 24 | She said the last word as two words . |
| 25 | She touched Artemis lightly on the shoulder as she said the last word , and throwing away her lipstick-stained cigarette butt , fell into step beside them . |
| 26 | He said the last word lightly , and they both knew he did n't mean it . |
| 27 | He was looking , without seeming to look , at Andropulos as he said the last words and felt almost certain that he saw a flicker of expression cross his face . |
| 28 | He wrote the last words of The Amateur Poacher — a gospel , an incantation — as an epigraph on all his own books . |
| 29 | Meg , you had the first word you can have the |
| 30 | Whitton pulled ahead five minutes later when he cantered through a demoralised defence to shoot home unopposed , but it was Shakespeare ( who else ? ) who had the last word , breaking the strikers ’ monopoly with the eighth goal , 10 minutes from the end . |