Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where was all that kindness , courtesy , and respect when you tried to seduce me last night ? ’ she demanded , glaring at him . |
| 2 | The Central Council of Physical Recreation helped to establish our first course in 1955 with an external examiner from the physical education profession joining internal adjudicators to ensure compatibility with nationally accepted standards at the qualifying examination . |
| 3 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 4 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 5 | He tried to phone you last night , the number you gave him , but there was something wrong with the line- ’ |
| 6 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 7 | Moses was 40 when he tried to strike his first blow for freedom ( 2:11–12 ) , which ended in disaster . |
| 8 | Rata Quick headed the 1970 Hertfordshire training course , and the county display team contributed to make our 25th Anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall such a memorable occasion . |
| 9 | His Francesca was a rising star in the Department of Trade and Industry , and they planned to celebrate her thirtieth birthday with a skiing holiday , due to start in two weeks ' time . |
| 10 | It was impossible to hide her excitement as his casual question seemed to confirm her first impression that the painting which had captured her attention was in truth an original . |
| 11 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
| 12 | The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn . |
| 13 | ( When Leonard came to write his second novel , he paid MacLennan the finest compliment of all — and the riskiest — by imitating his theme , as we shall see . ) |
| 14 | In his book Nurses , Power and Politics , he charted the progress of the nursing cause , looking at issues of conscience , education , image and professionalism as the NHS prepared to celebrate its 40th anniversary . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm to stay with my friend , you remember , I told you I 'd met her last week ? |
| 16 | The awful discovery that she 'd missed her last period and that , following their night of love and passion she was now probably expecting his baby was making Ross 's silence almost unbearably hard to accept . |
| 17 | One morning when I was visiting , she said in a matter-of-fact voice , ‘ Jesus came to visit me last night ! ’ |
| 18 | She 'd noticed her last night . |
| 19 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 20 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 21 | I 'd had my first experience with American enterprise . |
| 22 | By the time I came to do my first talk , her feathers were a lovely tawny colour with large patches flecked with grey and smaller specks of black and white . |
| 23 | Avril , 49 , who 'd divorced her first husband in 1987 after 20 years of marriage , first met Peter through their local church in Saltburn , near Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | ‘ We play in the same position and I thought I 'd proved myself last season . |
| 25 | I immediately set about trying to fulfil Mr Farraday 's wishes , but as you know , finding recruits of a satisfactory standard is no easy task nowadays , and although I was pleased to hire Rosemary and Agnes on Mrs Clements 's recommendation , I had got no further by the time I came to have my first business meeting with Mr Farraday during the short preliminary visit he made to our shores in the spring of last year . |
| 26 | The hose was where I 'd left it last summer , not neatly stored but tangled in a corner , its untidy coils covering a rake , a batch of canes and a pair of long-handled shears . |
| 27 | When they 'd finished their second cup of coffee her companion murmured , ‘ Time for one more thing . ’ |
| 28 | After she 'd taken her first sip , she said : ‘ Play it — go ahead , ’ and sat on the bed to listen where she would n't have to meet his eye . |
| 29 | I mean , I myself , for instance , after I 'd published my first book on psychoanalysis in nineteen eighty was summoned to the House of Commons by and given a dinner , in the House of Commons Restaurant , which is n't very good actually , least it was n't then , and effectively I was told by this great man was , noticed , had a very high opinion of his own ego , that erm , you know the left was in charge of psychoanalysis in this country , and had better conform or shut up . |
| 30 | So , expecting to be whisked off to some faraway hot spot for a mild spell of brainwashing , we duly prepared to bring you next week 's Unigram from under the shade of a palm tree on a secluded sandy beach — or at least somewhere nicer than four storeys above the Charing Cross Road in rainy central London . |