Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And echoing across Loch Garten I heard the last wintering whooper swans and the trills of common sandpipers . |
| 2 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 3 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 4 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
| 5 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The previous season I missed the last 12 games through a hernia operation and Achilles tendon trouble . |
| 7 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 8 | I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember the hangover I had the last time I went on the tiles with you , and tomorrow I have to ply squash at nine . |
| 10 | ‘ Creeping up to 40 was n't the main reason I wanted a third child , ’ says Saskia , ‘ but I was certainly aware that it would keep me back in the young-mum sphere along with the 25-year-olds . ’ |
| 11 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 12 | ‘ The way I played the first set was not me , not my usual game . |
| 13 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 14 | Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself . |
| 15 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 16 | ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked . |