Example sentences of "[subord] i [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 've wanted to make love to you since I first set eyes on you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It was the first bit of luck I 'd had since I first set eyes on you . |
| 4 | It must be at least twenty years since I first saw works by Basil Rocke . |
| 5 | ‘ When I first split from my husband the prince said he was terribly sorry , but I did n't reciprocate , ’ she said . |
| 6 | When I first thought about fancying men , it was about kissing and cuddling . |
| 7 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 8 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 9 | This is actually patch group 1 , bank 1 — not eleven , as I first thought . |
| 10 | The slenderest patients , those whose faces are nothing more than a triangle of bone around the eyes , they 're Musselmänner : not , as I first thought , as an ironical glance at musclemen . |
| 11 | as I first show in sequel whether the white waistcoated gentleman was right or not , I should have |