Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 2 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 3 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 4 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 5 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 6 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 7 | It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning . |
| 8 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 9 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 10 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 11 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 12 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 14 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 16 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 17 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 18 | Mr Ward told The Independent : ‘ Mr Rowland himself telephoned me the next day , said he was appalled at what had happened to my daughter , and gave me his direct line telephone number , saying he would be there every day from 9 to 6 . |
| 19 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 20 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 21 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |
| 22 | I hated it the first time . |
| 23 | He returned them the next day , asking for a refund . |
| 24 | ‘ I heard you the first time , boy . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I heard you the first time , ’ her mother said . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , I heard you the first time . |
| 27 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 28 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 29 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 30 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |