Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 3 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 4 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 5 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 6 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 7 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 8 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 9 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 10 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 11 | After starting the day a stroke behind Stewart , the USPGA champion , Langer overhauled him over the seventh , eighth and ninth holes . |
| 12 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 13 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 14 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 15 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 16 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 17 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 18 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 19 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 20 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 21 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 22 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 23 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 24 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 25 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 26 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 28 | Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York . |
| 29 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 30 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |