Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure the last named came from the sinister words occasionally overheard , ‘ If there were another war … . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm sure the first few weeks will be the worst , for her . ’ |
| 3 | Add the fact that by my visit ( Easter 1990 ) paths had been cleared under several hundred metres of new cliff to the left , and that six bolt-guns were at work equipping lines on an impressive upper tier , and I 'm sure the next guidebook will be at least twice as thick . |
| 4 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
| 5 | I mean I was shocked the first time when I went |
| 6 | And er of course I was lucky the next time see . |
| 7 | In fact I was ill the next day , and have been ill since then . |
| 8 | Cos I was sick the next morning actually . |
| 9 | Even I was terrified the first time it happened , when Art rolled over to our table , gave Tod a kind of rabbit punch that almost broke his neck , and said , incredibly loudly , |
| 10 | And what you do is you do it , and you get it wrong , and you , you miss it , and then you do it again and you 're better the next time and you get in . |
| 11 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 12 | The next year the eight to the final year , there 's sixteen the next year until we were getting that the two year course was just as big as the old one year course . |
| 13 | I of that and I said to him is that the last one ? |
| 14 | It 's likely the first life would be the man . |
| 15 | Many like steel , glass and paper can be re-used , and funnily enough it is cheaper the second time around . |
| 16 | Experts said it was possible the first three dogs had been doped to go faster , while the fourth and fifth had been slowed down . |
| 17 | It was early the next day that she was ushered into the offices of Croydon and Cooper . |
| 18 | It was easier the second time , much much easier . |
| 19 | Mounting steps was what Gus found most bewildering at this stage ; his feet made manful efforts , but tended to trail , and he was half-carried the last few yards to the door . |
| 20 | Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike . |