Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 3 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 4 | Ninety niner , remember what I done to you last night . |
| 5 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 6 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 7 | TYNEMOUTH beer festival had a curfew imposed on it last month by local magistrates . |
| 8 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 9 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 10 | Some ideas just seem so good , you ca n't understand why on one else thought of them first . |
| 11 | When it launched a complete make-up range last autumn , it introduced ‘ Mirror Image Consultation ’ , a new way of selling which is so simple that all the other companies were left wondering why they had n't thought of it first . |
| 12 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 13 | Whereas Goneril and Regan had been shown to us first in disguise , and then in reality , Edmund begins in reality , and only adopts disguise when his father enters . |
| 14 | Cos if he gets rid of them first then he does n't have to worry about those things until er later which sometimes does happen . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , that 's why I want to get rid of it first . |
| 16 | How could she have softened towards him last night ? she was thinking . |
| 17 | So , he said , well if you 'd have er spoken to me first |
| 18 | It 's always brought to them first thing in the morning . |
| 19 | Prof. Graham Street of Kirkdale had the title Richard Lines Professor of Biochemical Engineering conferred on him last week . |
| 20 | Yo you know the numbers that were allocated to you last time . |
| 21 | even though they might be part and parcel of the same organization , they are not the leaseholders so they ca n't make the arrangements , so if they want to make the arrangement they must have the lease assigned to them first , then we will come to terms with them over land and to under le under let . |
| 22 | I got quite , I was given to it last year , I reckon |
| 23 | Lets face it just about everyone who can kick a ball scored against him last year ! ! ! |
| 24 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 25 | No matter what undercurrents had passed between them last night , it had been true enough that it was la Principessa who 'd sent her grandson to collect her at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 26 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 27 | On 26 July 9am , after a night of wrestling with his conscience , Carter 's brother walked into Wantage police station and announced , ‘ My brother , John Carter , admitted to me last night that he had killed his wife . ’ |
| 28 | But Francis told me that had happened to them last year . |
| 29 | The first nine were reissued earlier and were welcomed by me last October . |
| 30 | Confusion over whether Mr Robert Maxwell , publisher of Mirror Group Newpapers , also had reservations were dismissed by him last night . |