Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Owen Jelf says he won the first heat ; his brother the second . |
| 5 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 6 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 7 | Yeah I mean we did the fourth but |
| 8 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 9 | ‘ I understand you knew the second victim , Annalisa Sellen . ’ |
| 10 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 11 | When the two kings met they had the first of many quarrels . |
| 12 | ‘ Railways still in a mess after the air raids — they were so delayed they missed the last ferry connection . |
| 13 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 14 | When Hunter-Blair had gone I finished the fourth one and went home . ’ |
| 15 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 16 | In the third round — do n't forget they played the third and fourth rounds all on one day then — we 're on the 6th green and Nicklaus is on the 12th right alongside , of course ( the greens at St Andrews meet where they add up to 18 ) . |
| 17 | After he 'd finished reading he closed the last one almost reverently , and handed them back to her . |
| 18 | Indeed , I have heard it called the first step on the path to true benevolence . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 20 | I think you meant the fourth of December and not fourth of November |
| 21 | I have to say I enjoyed the first programme much more , simply because of the subject we had to discuss on the second one , which was Christmas . |
| 22 | Mr Clay said he saw the second article on the plane flying home . |
| 23 | Before we left , they suggested I returned the next day to undergo a ‘ lymphangiogram ’ and explained the procedure . |