Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 32 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 33 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
| 34 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 35 | At cricket I played in the second eleven , and was its captain in my third year . |
| 36 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
| 37 | ‘ I played in the last Dublin game and the atmosphere was incredible . |
| 38 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 39 | I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door . |
| 40 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 41 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 42 | I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long . |
| 43 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 44 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 45 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 46 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 47 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 48 | ‘ You think I arrived in the last shower or rain ? |
| 49 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 50 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 51 | I turned to the third passenger . |
| 52 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
| 53 | I stated in the last chapter that , in becoming anorexic , I did the only thing I could . |
| 54 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 55 | The house move necessitated my moving school , to Brackenbury in Hammersmith where I began in the third year . |
| 56 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 57 | So I walked to the last bench what seated three pupils , I said , there it is look it 's stuck about three inch . |
| 58 | I had to have those three tees when I walked off the 18th . |
| 59 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 60 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |