Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 2 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 3 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 4 | ’ Aye , ye mentioned somethin' the last time I wis up . ’ |
| 5 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 6 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 7 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 8 | She bore him a third son , but a difficult carriage and birth presaged troubles which eventually cost her her life in her forties . |
| 9 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 10 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 11 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 12 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 13 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
| 14 | I began to move more freely around the island again , and built myself a third house . |
| 15 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 16 | It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning . |
| 17 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 18 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 19 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 20 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 21 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 23 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
| 24 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 25 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 27 | She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads . |
| 28 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 29 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 30 | Eventually , he climbed them a second time , very deliberately . |