Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I wished I had got in first by telling her I no longer found her sexually attractive .
2 Maukala — a simple African stone game I 've played since third grade
3 I 've thought about next thing they 'll do is holograms next .
4 " Oh I get it , I 've twigged at last .
5 I enjoyed another two years in Kenya but now my work is mission appeals in South West Britain and I have discovered at last the source of our treasure !
6 As this is the book I have turned to first ever since the first edition appeared in 1974 , it 's gratifying to note that enough people agree to take the volume into its third edition with a fourth on the way .
7 I have seen at first hand her effect on people young and old .
8 I have learned at last , and bitterly , that I can not do this . ’
9 I have left till last what may well be considered by book-collectors one of the most charming fields of ephemera collecting — that of the chapbook , so called from the chapman or pedlar in whose pack so many of these small publications found their way through the shires of England .
10 Well it 's very , they are talking about er other issues up to they are talking about the workforce and of the erm the the report from the and er it seems that they do n't really want much to programme forward which I have put for next year very structural maintenance of the and I what the services are actually doing , they have lost council probably say that they are out of control .
11 But , more than that , it made them feel involved at last .
12 It is a team which has grown since last year , reflecting the important emphasis being placed on Export sales , which have shown almost a 25% increase by value in the last two years .
13 They stressed the principle of continuity lying behind the order in the universe which has developed through second causes ; and they were sympathetic to Darwin .
14 But Paul Ince who was the driving force of this victory , which lifted United into third place , warned the Frenchman : ‘ He did some lovely things and he can do the flicks all day if we are winning , but if were losing he 's got to get his foot stuck in .
15 However , Santiago 's early lead was due to heavy support in and around the Manila area , and as the count progressed , the unofficial returns showed her having slipped into third place behind Ramos and Cojuangco .
16 Evert was supposed to struggle against the hard-hitting Jana Novotna , who has risen to 12th in the world rankings .
17 Hallett , who has slipped from seventh to 24th in the provisional world ranking list for next season , missed an easy green in the opening frame then took a back seat as rampant Wattana raced 5–0 ahead .
18 It was a notable achievement by 24-year-old Stich , who has slipped from third to 15th in the world rankings since his 1991 Wimbledon triumph , while Krajicek , with the biggest serve in the world game , is the up and coming star , having just moved into the top 10 .
19 She 'd decided at first that her brother deserved what was coming to him , but on reflection no one deserved to be thrown at Guido 's mercy .
20 So when your managers speak to you at the beginning of a er of your Monday morning meeting to say Gerald how much business have you got landed for next week you can say with conviction , two , two definite cases .
21 When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs .
22 You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur .
23 ‘ So you 've come at last , ’ she said .
24 ‘ So , you 've come at last , ’ he said .
25 As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket .
26 Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year .
27 Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first .
28 " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French .
29 " Confound it , Lovat , " she had said upon first setting eyes on Topaz .
30 Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well .
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