Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 2 | You can buy them one day and bring them back the next |
| 3 | This would make them respectively the first and fifth most popular tourist arractions in the world , with the ones in between being the three existing Disney theme parks . |
| 4 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 5 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 6 | so I phoned him back the next day , ah he 's in our Glasgow office today so I phoned the Glasgow , he 's on the phone , I said that 's okay I 'll call back . |
| 7 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | So learning that a particular symbol on a computer keyboard , situated in a particular room , delivers a banana from a feeder , is really the same kind of mental activity as recognizing the shape of a banana plant in a forest and remembering where to find it again the next day . |
| 9 | You test it out the next morning is n't it interesting you remembered as proof of the pudding . |
| 10 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 11 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 12 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 13 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 14 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 15 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 16 | Trouble is , they 'll expect to see you here the next time they come . ’ |
| 17 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 18 | Well that 's right , give it away the first part of the question |
| 19 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 20 | I 'll just take the two , and Billy 'll take them out the next week . |
| 21 | If you happen to know your bride or bridegroom 's tastes you could say , ‘ I would like to read you just the first verse/first two lines/last two lines of one of one of Sharon 's favourite poems about the sea . |
| 22 | A gentle breeze helped nudge us up the first incline — then the next , and the next , before we reached a tricky scramble round a rocky peak . |
| 23 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 24 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 25 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 26 | I laugh and push him up the last step . |
| 27 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 28 | Your PP tells you where the first five are , always starting with the object This might be as follows : |
| 29 | I 'll tell you where the next one is . |
| 30 | He was still brazening it out the next morning when the Provost and his bodyguard of twelve mounted serjeants and ten archers came to collect us . |