Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 2 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ Y-you asked me that the first time we met . ’ |
| 4 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 5 | Sniffing around the back door it occurred to me that the last time I 'd missed something : there was no cat door . |
| 6 | You pass the chosen card and then finger another as if you feel it is going to be the right one and then say ‘ How much do you bet me that the next card I turn over is the chosen one ? ’ |
| 7 | ( We must remember that this was closer to them than the Second World War is to us . ) |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better tell them that the last showing has just started , Bill , ’ said Mr Brickley . |
| 9 | Fortunately , even though it was just after 3am on Friday morning , Len was there to meet me and the first hurdle was over , I had arrived . |
| 10 | Clough responded furiously from his home yesterday , saying : ‘ Not a penny was passed between Terry Venables and me and the last time I was in a motorway service station , I went for a wee . ’ |
| 11 | Clough responded furiously from his home yesterday , saying : ‘ Not a penny was passed between Terry Venables and me and the last time I was in a motorway service station , I went for a wee . ’ |
| 12 | He believed me and the next day suggested that I moved out . |
| 13 | The differences here between the first two teams are insignificant , but the difference between them and the third team is striking . |
| 14 | Any handbook on assertiveness techniques will tell you that the first rule is to make eye contact with your interviewers . |
| 15 | Watch out for log books which tell you that the first owner was Engineering Educational Trust . |
| 16 | ‘ But I can assure you that the last thing the Football League wants is a repeat of the Maidstone situation where a club struggles through the summer to a new season and then folds . |
| 17 | On that occasion , although one of them only was present , both counsel and solicitor were in court acting on their behalf , and I find it very difficult to accept that neither counsel nor solicitor at the conclusion of the hearing explained in the clearest terms to the second appellant precisely what it was that she and the first appellant were to be restrained from doing . |
| 18 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 19 | He 'd tell over you and the next thing you know , you were on a fizzer form . |
| 20 | No I 'll tell you when the next course is for erm schools seventh the week commencing the seventh of February . |
| 21 | Obviously eventually if people keep on leaking blood their pressure will fall but you could have a situation where there 's not a single drop of blood yet lost to the system and yet the person 's in shock because the blood 's not being circulated properly off the heart , not a drop of blood lost to the system , but insufficient pressure , so shock can be caused by either of those two things , failure of the circulatory system because the pressure of the volume drops dangerously low , okay , you did a lot of work on what the person looks like , yes you as the casu you as the first aider will see this person in front of you , what will they be like ? |
| 22 | Miss T. received the last dose of pethidine before 5 p.m. when she for the first time spoke of the possibility of a blood transfusion . |
| 23 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 24 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 25 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 26 | Will he also tell him that the first priority must be to reform the common agricultural policy , to remove the losses from fraud which occur within that policy and , especially , to bring about a successful conclusion to the GATT negotiations ? |
| 27 | I 've tried to tell him that the last thing Project Eden needs is an Administrator who 's crazy as a dakkabug , but will he listen to me ? ’ |
| 28 | Goodnight says Steve Jobs had promised him that the NeXT boxes would sell in serious numbers , but now admits that that particular offering ‘ is n't making us any money . ’ |
| 29 | In April he told him that the next war had already started . |
| 30 | On the second morning , Miss Honey received by registered post a letter from a firm of local solicitors informing her that the last will and testament of her late father , Dr Honey , had suddenly and mysteriously turned up . |