Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [that] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 2 | Er , first of all may I give my sincere and abject apology for not being here to chair the Garrick 's A G M , this is due to a longstanding appointment made before I realized that the first Thursday in December is traditionally the day for the A G M. |
| 3 | Peter and I agreed that the next step should be for us ( you ? ) to circulate the above topic/author proposals as an Aunt Sally to Paul and Jackie Schachter to see if this coincides at all with their thinking . |
| 4 | Shortly after left the maltings , that part of closed down for ever , and I felt that the last link was finally broken with the major part of my working life . |
| 5 | I knew that the first step was to introduce Barny to jesses . |
| 6 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 7 | I knew that the first time she mentioned it . |
| 8 | I did that the first excuse and Lee , yeah , yeah office ! |
| 9 | In a famous library somebody found that the first two volumes had vanished . |
| 10 | As she was shown to her seat , she noted that trailers were being shown , which indicated that the last , and principal film had not yet started . |
| 11 | There were a number of errors in the raw data which meant that the first attempt to convert it into system files failed . |
| 12 | Because , as her heart started to thunder beneath her ribs , she realised that the last time she had seen those brown leather shoes , they were being worn by a man — in Prague ! |
| 13 | She announced that the first meeting of the Friends will be held on 13th November ( further details in the Calendar ) , and she stressed that all members of staff will be particularly welcome at all Friends meetings . |
| 14 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
| 15 | Her heart beat crazily within her as she recalled that the last time she 'd seen him she had hit him with all her might — and from the look of fury on his face he was not easily going to forgive her ! |
| 16 | When her first attempt to sustain a local nursing service failed , she decided that the first essential was a national organization to provide loans , train nurses , and monitor standards . |
| 17 | She thought that the first thing she would do when she earned some money would be to buy a house or a caravan like they had in Turpin 's Field , so that whatever happened they could all be together , safe for ever and ever . |
| 18 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 19 | Then she saw that the last cutting was new to her . |
| 20 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 21 | so we agreed that the next time a priest was around |
| 22 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 23 | We noticed that the first speaker , Susan did not use the JC vowel in STRUT words [ P3 ] . |
| 24 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 25 | We saw that the first , and most important , of these traumatic social changes was the transition from vegetarian foraging to big-game hunting which precipitated the murder of the primal father , and that subsequent totemic culture , still extant until recently in some parts of the world , was a consequence of this . |
| 26 | From the logbooks we saw that the last periodical examination had been omitted , but Lt. Lewes decided they were okay . |
| 27 | When we discussed replication as a moulding process , we saw that the last step in the process must be the new copy 's breaking free of the old mould . |
| 28 | And a foul by Whitlow on Rozario and pain written all over Robert Rozario 's face and we saw that the last time we had a Nottingham Forest live game when he collided with a post up at Bolton Wanderers and had to go off with a rib and facial injuries . |
| 29 | They planned that the next wave of new machinery would be installed in an area away from the shop-floor where engineers would try out working practices so that shop-floor workers would simply not have the chance to gain the upper hand . |
| 30 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |