Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 2 | I only had the first one to worry about . |
| 3 | I only watched the first 10mins of the FA cup game yesterday … funny how no mention was made of Pallisters hand ball in the box … or dick head schmeichal pushing Kamara in the face . |
| 4 | I just did the last one , the next , the , the , the next to the last one erm , I said er , I ca n't remember what the differentiation of it is , he said you would n't you have n't done it , I said no we 'd started |
| 5 | I just caught the last few minutes of a Yorkshire TV documentary , ‘ England 's Last Wilderness ’ , with David Bellamy burbling about the Pennines . |
| 6 | And I turned over and I just caught the last bit there . |
| 7 | I I just caught the last frame . |
| 8 | I just used the last . |
| 9 | No I just used the last now . |
| 10 | Also here Nick Sellars and I respectively made the second and third ascents of Peter Gomersall 's outrageously steep Showtime , thinking the grade to be hard F8a+ . |
| 11 | Following this I also heard the first performance of the Serenade with Peter and Dennis Brain at the Wigmore Hall in October 1943 . |
| 12 | As the day of ‘ our final hour ’ approached our publicity releases continued to whip up public opinion , and I carefully planned the last programme for broadcast from 9pm on the last evening until the station 's license expired with the stroke of midnight . |
| 13 | I now took the first positive steps , although still not without considerable misgivings . |
| 14 | I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also . |
| 15 | I now knew the last thing in the whole world I wanted was to go into the mountains again with FAKINTIL . |
| 16 | I am sorry to say that I often broke the tenth commandment for I really coveted that model and expect many of my contemporaries were also guilty of that sin . |
| 17 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 18 | I then had the first of the mad ideas that helped to save our lives . |
| 19 | I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward . |
| 20 | I never heard the last of it . |
| 21 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 22 | I recently attended the 5th Euro Rugby Trophy Tournament at Leiden who have as their club motto ‘ Doorzetten Is Onze Kracht ’ ( Fortitude is our Strength ) , which the players have adapted to ‘ Drinkken Is Onze Kracht ’ — ‘ Drinking Is ’ … |
| 23 | To prove the point his shrimpfly caught the first salmon for 15 years when Kilmaurs Angling Club , of which he is chief fund raiser , visited a river near Crianlarich . |
| 24 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 25 | But even she only reached the 2nd round , before losing to Larisa Savchenko . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 27 | Except inside and you just added the fourth . |
| 28 | she just divorced the second one ? |
| 29 | Fran tried the cupboard , but found only dishes , and smiled as she immediately tried the next one along , reaching for the handle at the same moment as Luke came across to help her . |
| 30 | She then opened the second case and performed a similar ritual with the .357 and the Charter Arms .22 . |