Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 2 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 3 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 4 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 5 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 6 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 7 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 8 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 9 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |
| 10 | ‘ He smelt the cigarette smoke and I was fired , typical of my luck during the first 30 years of my life , ’ recalls Caine , 59 . |
| 11 | I wonder if I could offer you a cup of coffee in my department within the next couple of minutes ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 13 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 14 | He admitted : ‘ There was doubt in my mind after the third round and I would have preferred to win by going head to head with Nick Price . |
| 15 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 16 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 17 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 18 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 19 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 20 | October 27th , 1984 , was ringed around on my calendars as the FIRST Hampshire Rally . |
| 21 | I 've got my orals on the eighteenth , nineteenth , and twentieth |
| 22 | It 's been a great weight on my shoulders over the last month . |
| 23 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 24 | From this discussion of London Creole we turn now to look at the London English of my informants in the next chapter . |
| 25 | ‘ I shut my eyes for the second one , ’ joked MacDonald . |
| 26 | I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects . |
| 27 | ‘ It was always my intention after the first two years of trying things out to get a more stable situation after the European Championships . |
| 28 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 29 | Hours went by as I dragged my legs over the next few miles . |
| 30 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |