Example sentences of "[vb past] it [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads . |
| 3 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 4 | I hated it the first time . |
| 5 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 6 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 7 | We made the necessary arrangements with the owner and viewed it the next day . |
| 8 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |
| 9 | We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can . |
| 10 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 11 | The Duty Officer made it a fifth time , glanced , not without anxiety at the brief-case , momentarily at Frau Nordern , then with relief , over her shoulder , and jerked his lumps and bumps . |
| 12 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 13 | When he did it a second time , I put the light out . |
| 14 | When she did it the second time . |
| 15 | We liked it the first time , it was a bit like |
| 16 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 17 | had it the last time . |
| 18 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 19 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 20 | And do you believe it , they wanted it the next day . |
| 21 | The German magazine Die Stern had also bought rights to the letter , and published it the next day , with a lengthy translation and a headline proclaiming , ‘ Drink , Birds and Politics — Prince Confesses . ’ |
| 22 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 23 | Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time . |
| 24 | I missed it the last time round . ’ |