Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his reply of 21 February 1935 , he added a footnote in his own hand which put the matter aptly ; but about my second article he had his doubts . |
| 2 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 3 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 4 | For my first tournament you were paid next to nothing from the caddie-master 's box , and your tips depended on how far you progressed in the tournament . |
| 5 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 6 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 7 | For my next example I will go back to Sri Lanka for a case which exhibits with particular clarity the general principle that equality of status calls for direct equivalence in reciprocal behaviour . |
| 8 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 9 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 10 | After my first day I felt really tired when I got home , as that day was the longest day of my life . |
| 11 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
| 12 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 13 | He referred me to a specialist , and shortly after my twenty-first birthday I went into hospital for tests . |
| 14 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 15 | Some six months after her First Communion she still felt very holy and full of Grace and ever aware of her Guardian Angel . |
| 16 | After her third attempt she was sacked . |
| 17 | After her third attempt she felt quite secure and rather smug . |
| 18 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 19 | After her fourteenth birthday she herself began to teach and never afterwards spent her days out of a classroom . |
| 20 | After a routine check just after his first birthday we were told that Cameron is quite normal . |
| 21 | During her first episode she was also suicidal , reporting that ‘ she despaired of her life , weening she might not live ’ and that ‘ she would have destroyed herself many a time at their [ the devils , ] stirrings … ’ . |
| 22 | During her first weeks she was noisy and disruptive in class . |
| 23 | During her last year she joined the Voluntary Service Unit and visited an old lady in Sevenoaks once a week . |
| 24 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 25 | With some encouragement from other quarters plus careful selection of the subject for their first course it should be possible to get a number of these persons to participate . |
| 26 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 27 | In one of my first jobs I plastered on the make-up and wore very executive-type suits . |
| 28 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |
| 29 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 30 | The day of the hearing of her second case she had been found dead . |