Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 2 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 3 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 4 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 5 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 6 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
| 7 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
| 8 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 9 | I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed . |
| 10 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 11 | Yes , he said , I should go , and he would n't come , cos he ai n't got no answer to it you see , anyway I went and I started back the next morning , he called me back . |
| 12 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 13 | Er , I went out the next day to go to er th yeah that was a Sunday I lost it . |
| 14 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 15 | She said well it 's too late now , the the clear one 's full so we just anyway , went I went down the next day there 's a new one or , next time , there 's a new one down there so they , they must obviously think , well put them all in together . |
| 16 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 17 | I ran down the next flight of stairs and knocked on Mavis 's door . |
| 18 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 19 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 20 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 21 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 22 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
| 23 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 24 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 25 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 26 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 27 | When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte . |
| 28 | Granted this authenticity even for the symbol , she came back the next day , nobly escorted . |
| 29 | She came back the next day . |
| 30 | She poured out the last of the coffee , then looked up into my horrified eyes . |