Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 2 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 3 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 4 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 5 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 6 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 7 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 8 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 9 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 11 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 13 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 14 | he has n't missed one since the second world war |
| 15 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 16 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 17 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 18 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 19 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 20 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 21 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 22 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 23 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 24 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 25 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 26 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 27 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 28 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 29 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 30 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |