Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telecom Australia , which trades off-shore as Telstra , says it has won a licence to build and operate a digital cellular telephone service in New Zealand ; Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd will also face competition in the cellular market from BellSouth Corp , expected to launch its network next month . |
| 2 | But when I tried to position my wheelchair next to my wife I found that the outstretched leg of the bearded chap behind came between us . |
| 3 | He tried to transfer his pension last year after he won his unfair dismissal case . |
| 4 | We came to see your play last night and we were absolutely disgusted . |
| 5 | ‘ Be ready at eleven tomorrow morning ! ’ rapped a voice she would know anywhere , his tone not one whit pleasanter than it had been when he 'd left her flat last night . |
| 6 | Although IBM began to trim its overhead last year , York 's experience at Chrysler ‘ would show how you could really shut the chequebook , ’ he adds . |
| 7 | Mr Yeltsin , 62 , returned to the Kremlin yesterday after a weekend spent contemplating his humiliation last week by the mainly conservative Congress of People 's Deputies , which rejected virtually every one of his proposals . |
| 8 | He decided to attend our conference last June . |
| 9 | Prompted by a ‘ Love Louth more ’ campaign , Louth maltings decided to play its part last Christmas by placing a 20ft christmas tree on the roof of the maltings . |
| 10 | Rose walked on thoughtfully for a bit , then she turned to Hilary and said : ‘ You went to see your mother last week , did n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | And Sam Burch went to see my grandfather next day and he said : |
| 12 | I went to see my father last night . |
| 13 | It was Sonny who managed to find his voice first . |
| 14 | The mum added : ‘ When we went to visit her aunt last week I noticed she had gone quiet . |
| 15 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 16 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
| 17 | The communist want to return to this old policy but had to consolidate his position first with rent and interest reductions . |
| 18 | He remembered he had missed their appointment last night . |
| 19 | There was no privacy , no curtain round the sink , so you had to do your top first , keep your nightdress on , wash your bottom part and hope people were n't looking . |
| 20 | Faye 's moments of preoccupation over the last two days , the way she had belittled her headache last night , and her obvious struggles to overcome her concern by talking about other things … |