Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 3 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 4 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 5 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | I hated it the first time . |
| 7 | ‘ I heard you the first time , boy . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I heard you the first time , ’ her mother said . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I heard you the first time . |
| 10 | And then I saw her the next day and and then I realized the and then I came back home and I told her why does n't she see there 's something changed . |
| 11 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 12 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 13 | I missed it the last time round . ’ |
| 14 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 15 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 16 | Which made her the last person to know how to handle this evening 's adventure . |
| 17 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 18 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 19 | Mr Ward told The Independent : ‘ Mr Rowland himself telephoned me the next day , said he was appalled at what had happened to my daughter , and gave me his direct line telephone number , saying he would be there every day from 9 to 6 . |
| 20 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 21 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 22 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 23 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 24 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 25 | I said then all you have to do is tell her how much she hurt you the last time |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not sure what you mean , ’ she stated then , ‘ but you were most definitely hostile to me when you saw me the next day , and that was still before you knew I was a journalist . ’ |
| 27 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 28 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 29 | When she did it the second time . |
| 30 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |