Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised this the first time I saw her dressed up to go out — excited , nervous and yet so alive . |
| 2 | Katherine glanced up as she slit open the third envelope . |
| 3 | ‘ Three months in prison , ’ they told Soapy the next day . |
| 4 | Because it rained all the next week , Mary went to talk to Colin every day instead of visiting the garden . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , when I found out how well-known he was , I made sure the first spot was very organised . |
| 6 | In fact he spent all the first winter of the war pontooning , and then was driving lorries on bomb disposal . |
| 7 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 8 | She broke open the third drawer with a snap . |
| 9 | He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box . |
| 10 | One sherpa , Tensing Norgay , accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary and became one the first men to climb Mount Everest . |
| 11 | On Saturday afternoons he shouted advice to the televised footballers , but often fell asleep the next minute , with a can of light ale in his hand . |
| 12 | went wrong the first time do you ? |
| 13 | I understood this the first time I read him , he wrote , in that smelly room in Hackney . |
| 14 | She concentrated on Durance instead and said : ‘ You saw this the first time on the Jonquil , did n't you ? |
| 15 | Alix bought some the next day , on her free half day in Cambridge before she took the Bletchley route to her Oxford interview ( for she was a clever girl , Alix ) — but she never dared to apply it , save in the privacy of her own room , until she went to Cambridge herself as a bona fide student the following autumn . |
| 16 | He placed the sketch-pad on his knees , flicked open the first page and began to draw . |
| 17 | Thus it rejected Owen 's bid , revolutionary in concept but illusory in fact , to appropriate all industry into a nationwide industrial democracy : and , by that rejection , but quite unaware that it had done so , left unimpeded the second stage of the Industrial Revolution , the stage that guaranteed that it too would be irreversible , that the continuance of a phenomenal increase in the production of wealth could occur . |
| 18 | Just before the clock struck five the next morning , Gabriel and Coggan were walking to the hayfields past their mistress 's house , when they saw a surprising sight . |
| 19 | Kate Miskin pushed open the first door on the left and stood aside for Dalgliesh and Massingham to enter . |
| 20 | On the landing he pushed open the first bedroom door , and there in front of him was Sarah Ryan . |