Example sentences of "[vb past] and [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 2 | As the centuries passed and the second coming receded into the remote future , it came more and more to be assumed that the final verdict could be pre-empted . |
| 3 | They turned south at last and began heading towards Ratagan 's home as their shadows lengthened and the second day of the patrol drew to a close . |
| 4 | Next day Mr Vulcan arrived and the first thing he did was to call on everyone who owed money to his sister . |
| 5 | At first Shildon shied away but Eliot urged and the next batch of revelations were made . |
| 6 | It was blow-out , on the driver 's side , and erm , well we just lost it , the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall , |
| 7 | The State of the Prisons went through four editions as Howard 's travels and experience grew and a second book , An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe , reflected his later interest in military hospitals , lazarettos for the sick , and ways of combating the plague . |
| 8 | After a show in Groningen , several complained and the next night they played a mammoth set lasting more than a hour , boasting four encores . |
| 9 | I did and the next morning the chain was loosened again . |
| 10 | We were puttering up river late in the afternoon and the sun was beginning to go down over these huge trees and a flight of big birds , herons or something , were taking off like pink seaplanes as someone said and the second assistant suddenly stood up and yelled out This is paradise , this is fucking paradise . |