Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 2 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 3 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 4 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 5 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 6 | When the cotton trade began to boom in the 1780s , Africa and Asia took between them a fifth of cotton goods exported , with Europe and America sharing the rest almost equally . |
| 7 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 8 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 9 | As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism . |