Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 2 | He might be back to normal , but Robbie had n't forgotten the way he 'd turned on her last night . |
| 3 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 4 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 5 | It might even be something that Creed already understood , that he 'd divined on their first meeting in the Mortlake office . |
| 6 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 7 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 8 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 9 | Peacock 's strike condemned United to their first League defeat since March . |
| 10 | Then he said : ‘ Actually , as I suppose you know , I got rid of my first wife on to Walter . ’ |
| 11 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |
| 12 | The rain put paid to our next day 's match and consequently we did n't play until towards the end of the tour against the Jonor Rhinos , a team containing four Malaysian internationals , coached by a First Grade Australian ( who also played ) . |
| 13 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 14 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 15 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 16 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 17 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 18 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |
| 19 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 20 | He would like to have gone more fully into the subject which was second in interest in his mind to Walter Machin — Viola Machin , and the way she had come by her second husband . |
| 21 | A letter explained that it was the pictures Simon had owned before his second marriage and which by rights belonged now to his daughter . |
| 22 | Among other matters , the G-7 Finance Ministers reaffirmed their concern over the yen , although they noted that it had stabilized since their last meeting in April . |
| 23 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 24 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 25 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 26 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
| 27 | She visualised the copy of Cross 's Dictionary of the Christian Church which she had noticed on her last visit . |
| 28 | Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English . |
| 29 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 30 | If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance . |