Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 2 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 3 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 4 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 5 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 6 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 7 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 8 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 9 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 10 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 11 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 12 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 13 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 14 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 15 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 16 | Shrimpton 's mother fed them breakfast the next morning , but when her father showed up , he exploded and chased Bailey off the farm . |
| 17 | He watched me do the second table in imitation of his manner . |
| 18 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 19 | When the two kings met they had the first of many quarrels . |
| 20 | His awkwardness made her remember the last time they had met — that time he had come to her and cried upon her shoulder , four days after Han Ch'in 's death . |
| 21 | Her strong commitment to women 's rights led her to write the first Salvadorean publication on the oppression of women , The Condition of Women in El Salvador , published in Mexico in 1961 . |
| 22 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 23 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 24 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 25 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 26 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 27 | England winger Andy Sinton bagged a glorious hat-trick but goalkeeper Neville Southall 's deliberate handball after 19 minutes saw him receive the first red card . |
| 28 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |
| 29 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 30 | And a final thought , did I say the last one , that one |