Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth .
2 On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) .
3 In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser .
4 I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one .
5 He 'd fallen from a second floor window .
6 He 'd trusted for the last time .
7 I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them .
8 And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off .
9 It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time .
10 A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up
11 We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village .
12 ‘ Tell me , ’ he 'd said to the first .
13 now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl
14 The welcoming party for Ali Bacher , first off the plane , and the 94-strong South African party was only a small one , comprising Jamaican and West Indian Board officials and assorted media , but all present knew they had witnessed a piece of history that only recently seemed destined for the next century .
15 He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand .
16 by the time I 'd got to the next one
17 To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road .
18 Matter of of people who 'd died in the first world war .
19 Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’
20 If you spotted a smart black-and-white magpie in a field , that was certainly one , but if , when you 'd walked into the next field , you saw another , was that two or another one ?
21 Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date .
22 So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand .
23 In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! !
24 Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ .
25 He 'd fought in the last war and is a very intelligent and basically optimistic person , like John .
26 They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry .
27 Taunton Cider will cease operations quietly on January 1 , but Fitzgerald Lighting will mark the end of their connection on December 1 in style with a steam hauled run by the last train from Walker Lines Industrial Estate to Bodmin Parkway .
28 ‘ So she got rid of every last one ? ’
29 Peter Butler , 40 , got divorced for the second time two years ago .
30 What became known as the First Series was published by Macrone in two volumes in Feb. 1836 with 16 illustrations by Cruikshank .
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