Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] with the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
2 | I dealt with the first part of the hon. Lady 's question in reply to the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) . |
3 | Guest of honour at the celebrations , which coincided with the 24th anniversary of the country 's independence , was Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao . |
4 | Several times during their tour , which ended with the second ‘ test ’ against a New Zealand XV a few days after these notes were written , the England ‘ B ’ management announced that one aim of their New Zealand expedition was to broaden their rugby experience . |
5 | At the beginning of December 1939 , Fred Dunstan was one of the adults who went with the last group of children from the transit camp to ‘ Bydown ’ , not far from Barnstaple in North Devon . |
6 | For a brief moment , as she battled with the last remaining shreds of her resistance , Lindsey could feel the thud of his heartbeat , then excitement exploded , heady and intoxicating , as her hands relaxed against the warmth of his chest . |
7 | Once the report is ready for distribution I hope Planning and Co-ordination will be able to give us some assistance as you did with the first plan . |
8 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |
9 | ‘ Well , Jack Lawrence , you old romantic ! ’ she teased with the last remnant of her sense of humour , and he smiled a slow , lazy smile . |
10 | I must thank you for replying so promptly to the questionnaire which we enclosed with the last issue of The Birmingham Magazine . |
11 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
12 | we left with the last drunk |
13 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
14 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
15 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
16 | It was a favourite of his , because he identified with the third line of its first verse — He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword . |
17 | He served with the 3rd Battalion of the Scots Guards during the war , but finally , in 1947 , he was able to fulfil his long-cherished ambition to savour company life . |
18 | Next the designer moves on to the exceptions , such as a and s , all the while bearing in mind the axis he established with the first letter he designed . |
19 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he answered with the first real amusement of the day , ‘ mine does . ’ |
20 | He stayed with the first secretary , H. A. R. Philby , who had promised to keep an eye on him . |
21 | He missed with the first . |