Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 2 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 3 | He might be back to normal , but Robbie had n't forgotten the way he 'd turned on her last night . |
| 4 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 5 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 6 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 7 | It might even be something that Creed already understood , that he 'd divined on their first meeting in the Mortlake office . |
| 8 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 9 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 10 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 11 | Peacock 's strike condemned United to their first League defeat since March . |
| 12 | Then he said : ‘ Actually , as I suppose you know , I got rid of my first wife on to Walter . ’ |
| 13 | But the difference is that for him , advertising was simply a means to an end — part of his overall game-plan , and one that he always planned to abandon by his thirty-fifth birthday . |
| 14 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |
| 15 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
| 16 | But the young man managed to get to it first . |
| 17 | For those who did stick to their first choice , the most important consideration seems to have been simply how much they wanted — or could afford — to pay back each month . |
| 18 | I resumed running in my fifth year at the school , winning the 200 metres in the school sports and coming second in the 100 and 400 metres . |
| 19 | When he did leave for his next promotion , the ‘ real polises ’ reading his c.v . |
| 20 | He did come to her last Friday , he gave her something for her mouth , you know her |
| 21 | The rain put paid to our next day 's match and consequently we did n't play until towards the end of the tour against the Jonor Rhinos , a team containing four Malaysian internationals , coached by a First Grade Australian ( who also played ) . |
| 22 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 23 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 24 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 25 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 26 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 27 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |
| 28 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 29 | He would like to have gone more fully into the subject which was second in interest in his mind to Walter Machin — Viola Machin , and the way she had come by her second husband . |
| 30 | A letter explained that it was the pictures Simon had owned before his second marriage and which by rights belonged now to his daughter . |