Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George , whom I looked for first , was in his office eating a fat ragged beef sandwich and drinking diet Coke . |
| 2 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 3 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 4 | Dr Claudine Dauphin ( Lady Carlisle Research Fellow ) met several Somervillians at her lecture in Oxford in May on Dor which she mentioned in last year 's Report . |
| 5 | This June 1954 view of 26015 passing over the pointwork of Glossop line at Dinting reminds the writer of the final working which he witnessed on 10th March 1981 . |
| 6 | A working compromise was reached only after Barbarossa agreed to hold the Pope 's bridle and stirrup at a formal meeting ; an act of ritual homage which he had at first refused . |
| 7 | Instead the address which he had at last been persuaded to give was in a short and narrow street off the Edgware Road , an enclave of cheap , unsmart cafés chiefly Goan and Greek . |
| 8 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 9 | He hurriedly wrote a long letter to The Times , which it published on 14th February , the Monday after the debate . |
| 10 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 11 | They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember her , ’ Sladen pounced , thankful for something he recognised at last . |
| 13 | Now he will be able to carpet the bare boards of his house , something he predicted in last week 's Spectator would be impossible under Labour , so mortgaged to the hilt is he . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been playing Jimi 's stuff live for about fifteen years , now , ’ says Hansen , ‘ but The Ventures was what I listened to first , then it was The Stones and The Beatles . |
| 15 | When she was beginning to cry out for him , while he still hovered over her , taunting her with the prospect of even now being denied what she had at first fought against , he demanded her verbal surrender too . |
| 16 | I did n't know what she meant at first . |
| 17 | Well I got Eric , that 's what you played with last night , them there . |
| 18 | of what you drank from first , then what you drowned in . |
| 19 | Erm and while Ken 's giving them out let's try and remind ourselves what we talked about last week . |
| 20 | That 's what we talked about last time yes . |
| 21 | We were old enough to know what we wanted at last . |
| 22 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
| 23 | That 's what he said about last week . |