Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found them at last . |
| 2 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 3 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 4 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 5 | I admired her at first , wanting to help the slaves . |
| 6 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 7 | That militant Forbes — you know , the one I warned you about last week — has called all the food and beverage staff out on strike ! ’ |
| 8 | I watched it in first and I went |
| 9 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 10 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 11 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 12 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 13 | so I said something about last week , you see , and I could of , it was my birthday last week and , but er , and I carried on , he said oh go , oh I 'm sorry mum , I 'm sorry about that and I said do n't matter , does n't matter , well I thought , right I 'll let him know |
| 14 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 15 | ‘ It was her beauty which attracted me at first , ’ said Mr Jefferson , who was a produce buyer for NAFFI for more than 37 years . |
| 16 | ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 17 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 18 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 19 | And they ca n't rely on goal difference , which saved them from Third Division football in 1938 . |
| 20 | And they ca n't rely on goal difference , which saved them from Third Division football in 1938 . |
| 21 | Several people were listening but nobody said anything at first . |
| 22 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 23 | ‘ You told him about last night ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ She stirred herself at last and wrote , ’ he said as he handed Rose the letter . |
| 25 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 26 | But she hated it at first . |
| 27 | She heard me at last . |
| 28 | She saw him at last , but she did n't signal back , she clutched her bag and froze , staring , and the man beside her turned round . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ she answered him at last , in a brisk , matter-of-fact tone that concealed , she hoped , all that she was feeling . |
| 30 | The colts were 44th , having been 39th at halfway , following a contribution of 14 mins. 31 from Oliver Holter who promoted them from 66th . |