Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |
| 2 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
| 3 | It was when I was fifteen or sixteen that I committed my first big offence . |
| 4 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
| 5 | But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry . |
| 6 | It was not until many years later when I was a principal inspector in 1965 that I had my first direct encounter with ICAO itself . |
| 7 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 8 | It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’ |
| 9 | It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not afraid to admit that I wanted you last night , more than I 've wanted any woman for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | It was from there , on 28 March 1941 , that she took her last walk down to the River Ouse and waded into the water . |
| 12 | I 'm especially pleased Tracy chose the Evert Cup for her comeback and that she had her first success here . ’ |
| 13 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 14 | Margaret , already a mother of eight , decided that she wanted her ninth baby to be born at home . |
| 15 | But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year |
| 16 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 17 | They 're the ones that you bought me last week . |
| 18 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 19 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 20 | Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter . |
| 21 | It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world . |
| 22 | He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy . |
| 23 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 24 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 25 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 26 | It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard . |
| 27 | Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there . |
| 28 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 29 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |
| 30 | It was after his move to the Italian manufacturer in 1974 that he enjoyed his first Grand Prix victory , at Jarama , in the Ferrari 312 . |