Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No that 's a lie , I enjoyed the first 15 miles . |
| 2 | Roe , already third , fourth and fifth in European tour events this year , said : ‘ I birdied the first three holes to give myself a flying start and never really looked back . ’ |
| 3 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 4 | ‘ I spent the first nineteen years of my life in England . |
| 5 | I , I watched the first ten minutes which was really funny cos as they 're going along in the truck ah look at that woman ! |
| 6 | ‘ I brought the first sixty pages of Fallen Angel . ’ |
| 7 | I sang the first sixteen bars in a soft velvet voice , standing perfectly still and letting the sad lyrics speak for themselves . |
| 8 | I attended the first two or three , before my legs started to trouble me . ’ |
| 9 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 10 | ‘ One paper asked me to pick the Derby winner and I picked the first four . |
| 11 | So I missed the first two minutes of Jazz Record Requests on Radio 3 . ’ |
| 12 | Yet the appeal of crusading was , if anything , even stronger to those aristocratic houses just below the level of the princely : it was , after all , the house of Boulogne which produced the first two rulers of Jerusalem . |
| 13 | By 1983 , he was in charge of the Scotland B team and on the way to forging that illustrious partnership with Jim Telfer which brought a second Grand Slam in 1990 even sweeter than the French game which settled the first six years before . |
| 14 | She read the first two pages and felt a blush rise from her palpitating bosom up her neck to suffuse her face . |
| 15 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 16 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of fellow trainer Michael Dickinson , now based in the US but who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again , who hit form on the day it mattered to win the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 17 | Hefting a large , heavy pair of cable-cutters that had lain on a shelf , she let the first two go by . |
| 18 | The Italian car industry received its much needed boost in the first race when Messrs Monoia and Morandi beat off 76 other challengers to win in an Italian-made OM , who filled the first three places . |
| 19 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 20 | She spent the first three months of 1814 in bed . |
| 21 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 22 | She selected the first three pages — Lucy as she 'd been allowed to see her , and handed them over . |
| 23 | She lost the first two babies , you know that , and she 's always done her best for you . |
| 24 | Ahl , 18 , from Exeter , outplayed her opponent particularly in the second set when she took the first five games . |
| 25 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 26 | Barry Took , who wrote the first forty shows of the series with Bernard Merriman , remembers it all with an affection that is certainly not confined to the money it bought him . |
| 27 | Anne Dickie , Manager Royline Sales , said regional awards had been introduced so that the efforts and results of branches could be better highlighted and rewarded — and she praised the first three winners . |
| 28 | He was overhauled in the final 100 metres by Alessandro Lambruschini , who placed fourth in the 1988 Olympic steeplechase final , but dipped under 55 secs for the last lap and clocked 3 mins 47.7 secs faster than Neil Horsfield and John Mayock , who ran the first two legs for Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ We got the first two ! |
| 30 | We reviewed the first 14 consecutive yellow cards reported to the Spanish drug surveillance system ; only four of the patients could be regarded as having Guillain-Barré syndrome . |