Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] 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 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 3 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 4 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 11 | Then a stitch stabbed my ribs and forced me to walk the next few yards . |
| 12 | The Germans left us to pull the last rope down and headed off without us , leaving us temporarily disenchanted with international fraternity . |