Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 2 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 3 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 4 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 5 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 6 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 7 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 8 | I think you told me in your last letter that he is having dinner with the Stapletons tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 9 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 10 | he deserves a happier memorial than the one afforded him by his last few crazy hours on the dance-floor and the street . |
| 11 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
| 12 | Glenn Gould played this regularly , even recorded it ( two movements on Le Chant du Monde CD LDC278 799 , 10/86 ) and played it at his last public concert in 1964 . |
| 13 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |
| 14 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 15 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 16 | She first represented her country when she was just 15 and only last month , Tennis Ireland selected her for her fourth international match , which was played in Italy at Easter . |
| 17 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 18 | Here the good sisters comforted us on our last journey with a manchet of bread and a cup of wine . |
| 19 | This observation led him to his third important realization , namely , that the tension that he had seen in his neck was causing other tensions throughout his whole structure . |
| 20 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 21 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |
| 22 | After settling the children into their hotel , the team took them on their first visit — to Disney 's Magic Kingdom , a giant playground of spectacular rides . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw you through your first marriage , so the least I can do is see you through your first murder investigation . ’ |
| 24 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 25 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 26 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 27 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |
| 28 | No , I trimmed it for her last week |
| 29 | I felt it during my last year at Ladymont . |
| 30 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |