Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when I came to the third I did not like it . |
| 2 | Did any any of you three see what anything that happened in the first one . |
| 3 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |
| 4 | So I du n no what happened to the first one . |
| 5 | She got into the fifth one , only to die two hours later . |
| 6 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 7 | Dexter began on the next one . |
| 8 | The Summerchilds lived in the third one along , with the peeling woodwork and the neglected grey rendering . |
| 9 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 10 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 11 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |
| 12 | And another , secondary spasm , when he thought about the first one , and realized that he was more appalled by vulgarity than he was by death . |
| 13 | Resentful souls on Earth , tethered there by obligation or obstinacy , muttered that Capella knew from the first what would be found on Mars and why . |
| 14 | Some submissions were to clear the initial hurdles relatively quickly , even when they fell at the first one . |
| 15 | However at 2100 air attacks on the departing Fleet and convoy began and lasted for the next one and a half hours — torpedo-bombers attempted to attack down moon but were greeted by intense A.A. fire and were forced to turn away . |
| 16 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 17 | ‘ And you , ’ she said to the next one . |