Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ . |
2 | At the end of summer there were still patches of old snow on the sheltered slopes of the Cirque des Pessons , and I wrote my first poem about Andorra : |
3 | So she had it first , you had it second erm daddy had it third and I had it fourth . |
4 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
5 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
6 | He was quite near , jostling among the spectators , and I had my first close look at the wild-eyed little goblin who had plagued me . |
7 | When I reached the pit bottom , there was approximately three feet of water at the pit bottom and I had my first experience of water in the mines . |
8 | Excepting for German reconnaissance aircraft which shadowed the convoy and a number of abortive U-boat attacks , we all arrived safely and I had my first run ashore in a foreign country . |
9 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
10 | She seated me on her right , and I made my first direct pass as soon as we sat down . |
11 | Hamilton and I spent our last night in Rome at a very respectable hotel on the Via Garibaldi , near the high walls of the prison . |
12 | And I smoked my last cigarette years ago right here in Sheffield , England . ’ |
13 | Women wept as Barry Ryan , in a moving tribute to his twin , said : ‘ You were at my first breath and I felt your last breath , we should smile at such perfect symmetry . ’ |
14 | But the path took me back into darkness and I felt my first real twinge of panic . |
15 | Crossbills and red squirrels showered stripped pinecones around me , and I saw my first crested tits , trapezing in the canopy . |
16 | " And I want you first tell me why you took the gibbon to the palace when you knew it was wrong . |
17 | And I remembered our last day together when I 'd promised to bring you to the Peacock theatre and robbed you of your heart 's desire by forcing you into my bed instead . |
18 | He was a guest on This is Your Life , and I introduced him first as Peggy Ashdown , and then had to concentrate hard in case I called him Paddy Ashcroft … |
19 | ‘ And I suppose my first step on the path would be to tell you where the jade is ? ’ |
20 | Erm you peel off the tissue paper and you have your first print . |
21 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
22 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
23 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
24 | She then noticed that his eyes had narrowed while surveying her critically , and she heard his next words with apprehension . |
25 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
26 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
27 | Our cab from Guadeloupe airport turned into the harbour at Pointe-á-Pietre and we had our first glimpse of our brand new stunning sailing ship . |
28 | Tony Prescott , managing director with Health Images , the company behind the development , said : ‘ The whole building is finished now and we take our first patient in on April 13 . ’ |
29 | it an Uno and we saw her last week was n't it ? |
30 | We had come in search of raptors and we saw our first after only five minutes of walking . |