Example sentences of "[num] afternoon [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films . |
| 2 | One afternoon we were all wandering up Tottenham Court Road for some reason . |
| 3 | The nearest pub , a matter of some importance to me , and shop , were in Duns , and one afternoon we travelled there to re-stock depleted supplies . |
| 4 | One afternoon we all went to the baths . |
| 5 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 6 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 7 | Eventually it became too much , and one afternoon we looked down to see the bowwab moving out . |
| 8 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 9 | And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting . |
| 10 | One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink . |
| 11 | One afternoon we were taken to the Kidge above Delhi where British troops had held out against constant attacks during the Mutiny . |
| 12 | One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house . |
| 13 | One afternoon they will be taken for an easy mountain ramble and on another they are taken by horse drawn carriage into the woods where they can barbecue sausages ( a small charge is made for the barbecue ) . |
| 14 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
| 15 | One afternoon she had lurked in the medical bookshop at the top of Gower Street and looked at glowing colour plates of carcinomas . |
| 16 | Then one afternoon she came in smiling . |
| 17 | One afternoon she was maintaining her usual bedside vigil when , with the strains of Madam Butterfly playing in the background , he opened his eyes ‘ and was back ’ . |
| 18 | Then one afternoon she came by and she asked my what was up . |
| 19 | One afternoon she gave a pound short on the change which had showed up in emerald numerals before her face . |
| 20 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 21 | One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button . |
| 22 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 23 | One afternoon I went out with another girl for a walk , with the idea of finding a quiet spot in the meadow we called the Big Field , to read and write letters . |
| 24 | One afternoon I went to the Chelsea Hotel , to see the 1990 Tarum , shown with hats designed by Philip Somerville . |
| 25 | After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers . |
| 26 | One afternoon I went out riding . |
| 27 | One afternoon I was going back into my hotel when a fat man came and stood in front of me . |
| 28 | ‘ It was about a month ago ; one afternoon I sort of burst into father 's office to ask him something . |
| 29 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 30 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |