Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The parents , he was convinced , had perceived nothing of the incident last Thursday , and therefore he was happy to relegate it to the back of his mind , and do nothing further about it .
2 The four , who re-release their single Thank You For The Music next week , split up 10 years ago .
3 The flagship of the British labour movement , nothing less , that 's the vision , that 's what we want to try and create and that 's what we want to come back to you and tell you about the prospects next year .
4 Then he said , ‘ It was you in the passage last night , was n't it ? ’
5 They think they have seen her somewhere before — was she on the television last night ?
6 ‘ Was that you on the phone last night ? ’
7 Now that list is provided with you on the day first day of your assignment .
8 Brigadier Gatehouse is coming to start you on the shooting next week and Miss Bedwelty is coming to discuss the riding arrangements today . ’
9 ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’
10 Was you at the Park last night , madam ?
11 Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division .
12 She 's the girl who let me into the house last might …
13 Again marketing budget at two , six , seven , the point made there again , numbered item one in the bottom third no national advertising and then two sixty eight , this is a meeting of the twenty fifth of February nineteen eighty eight , present including Mr and yourself today I send that 's Mr pointed out that so far our reaction to the recent media criticism had been totally defensive in future these actions to be defended , but then attacked in order to regain our credibility were you indeed present at that meeting of the twenty fifth of erm February ?
14 Well I 'm not we , well did they was that one in the fog last night ?
15 If at one in the morning last night Tod had had his brain switched on , he could have had his minders sort me out there and then .
16 No Should have had one in the bedroom last night with next door upstairs .
17 He punched me in the head first , from the side . ’
18 My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House .
19 I told Mr Kennedy to put them in the kennels last night .
20 But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat .
21 The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx .
22 Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold .
23 if you 're interested , then we can do that in the bath , can you put them in the box first
24 She killed herself at the theatre last night . ’
25 If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first , she 's immediately led astray by extras like ‘ free use of private beach ’ , ‘ heated swimming pool ’ or ‘ wine-tasting ’ .
26 So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ .
27 Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August .
28 Instead of lifting her into the saddle first , as he had always done before , he mounted Chalon , turned the horse in a tight circle to present its left flank to Isabel , and extended an imperative hand .
29 Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall .
30 Courteously seating her inside the car first , he walked round to the driver 's side , and when he had settled himself behind the wheel asked unexpectedly , ‘ Have you visited one of our pubs yet ? ’
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