Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 2 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 3 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 4 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 5 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 6 | You could of let me have the first one |
| 7 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 8 | Well d' ya remember the first party we had ? |
| 9 | They do n't even know who built the first engine ? |
| 10 | The Tour has begun , and by evening we 'll know who wears the first maillot jaune . |
| 11 | And remember that most insurance companies expect you to pay the first part of any claim — usually £25-£50 . |
| 12 | D' you remember the first time ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I want you to catch the first flight back from Brussels . |
| 14 | Take a rest and try again — it is amazing how much better you do the second time around . |
| 15 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 16 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 17 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 18 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 19 | and if you 're gon na send people to Northern Ireland and places like that you want 'em to defend the next soldier ? |
| 20 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 21 | But that amendment will do nothing to change the first part of the Clause ... |
| 22 | Let me answer the second question first . |
| 23 | Let me do the last one first . |
| 24 | Let his man make his way back there , and let me have the third horse and bring you the quickest way to Ullesthorpe . |
| 25 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 26 | On the first note of the following eight-bar break I took the first step , missed the second and somersaulted down the rest , orchestrated by drum rolls and cymbal crashes as the rest of the band dissolved into discord . |
| 27 | It allows you to select the next field to access ( see below ) . |
| 28 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 29 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |
| 30 | Let him make the first move . |