Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 2 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |
| 3 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 4 | Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed . |
| 5 | I wan na try it with one of these three , twenty three hour systems , supposed to work it the last |
| 6 | If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’ |
| 7 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
| 8 | With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was . |
| 9 | Alison also likes 60s music ( too young to remember it the first time around ) and buying things for her home . |
| 10 | Having bought the latest recommendation one month what do they do next when something comes along to supersede it the next ? |
| 11 | Suppose , for example , that your most recent life had been a particularly horrifying and traumatic one : you would not really want to experience it the first time you were regressed , as you might not be able to cope . |
| 12 | Yesterday the 86-year-old writer of more than 80 books said from her home in Jesmond , Newcastle : ‘ I am amazed and humbled that the Queen has seen fit to give me a second honour . ’ |
| 13 | And in fact you 're probably going to be invited because everybody seems to want to give me an eightieth birthday party . |
| 14 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 15 | There were three words in the do n't ring yet there were three words in the title I 'll give you two you have got to give me the last one . |
| 16 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 17 | Convincing wins The game had been close throughout with Spectrum looking good for a win after Terry Parvin had hit a basket and a free throw to give them a last minute lead by 47 points to 45 until Lockey decided to steal the limelight to give Consett a 48–47 win . |
| 18 | All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing . |
| 19 | Oh I always give you first cup , I 'll have to give you the last one then . |
| 20 | Eventually , in what would then have been interpreted as a generous gesture on the part of the Poor Law authorities , the wife was freed in order to give her a second chance to build up a home . |
| 21 | Luckily she appeared so insignificant with all the bags that no one bothered to give her a second glance . |
| 22 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 23 | It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance . |
| 24 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 25 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 26 | His hand hovered over the book as though to give it a second chance . |
| 27 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 28 | He could n't think of anything else to say , so he made as if to kiss her a third time . |
| 29 | Then I 'll decide whether to post him the last reels of film in a Jiffy bag or fly back to London with them myself . |
| 30 | Find out who will be there to wake them the next morning , if you are not on duty . |