Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 2 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
| 4 | Er , I did at the last council urge that we actually needed to break the deadlock my er a and I thought that was very important . |
| 5 | ‘ My coach , Malcolm Arnold , told me that you do n't win gold medals performing like I did in the first round . |
| 6 | Once the report is ready for distribution I hope Planning and Co-ordination will be able to give us some assistance as you did with the first plan . |
| 7 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |
| 8 | You 'll go wild , like you did in the third year with Sharon Latimer . |
| 9 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |
| 10 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added . |
| 12 | So the first two or three hundred we did in the first year have now been resold twice . |
| 13 | to have a course , but if the crew on that particular ship mutinies , as they did during the last er Shadow Cabinet , then you 're in trouble , are n't you ? |
| 14 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 15 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
| 16 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 17 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |
| 18 | Only if the burden becomes insupportable — or increases too abruptly — do electors seriously complain ( as they did in the last days of the 1964 and 1974 Labour governments ) . |
| 19 | But again they picked a team of boys , as they did in the last two World Cups . |
| 20 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 21 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
| 22 | He did on the 9th green in the last round . |
| 23 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
| 24 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 25 | He did not benefit much , scoring 23 before he snicked Snell 's out-swinger , as he did in the first innings , to be caught by the keeper . |
| 26 | Indeed of Hughes , now scoring the simple as well as the specatucal — as he did in the 60th minuted to secure victory — Fergsuon said : ‘ That was his fourth goal in successive games . |
| 27 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 28 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 29 | In fact , that is just what it did at the last election . |
| 30 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |