Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] i [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 2 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 3 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |
| 4 | For the first time I notice the great hairy leaves have five fingers . |
| 5 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 6 | I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember . |
| 7 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 8 | The next moment I heard the confident heel taps behind me . |
| 9 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
| 10 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 11 | Recommended music : Last Night I had the Strangest Dream . |
| 12 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 13 | In my last message I listed the impressive accolades won by you for Rentokil in the past year . |
| 14 | The last tour I had the whole thing note-for-note worked out and it got a bit boring after a while ; this way it stays exciting and sometimes I pull it off and sometimes I die a death . |