Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me answer the second question first . |
| 2 | It certainly makes me regard the next car commercial with a new pair of eyes . |
| 3 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 4 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 5 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 6 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 7 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 8 | But relief workers who rescued them say the next challenge is to ensure they do n't suffer psychologically from what they have witnessed . |
| 9 | I can have them fried the next day . |
| 10 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 11 | In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain . |
| 12 | Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks . |
| 13 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 14 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 15 | I asked the Second Son . |
| 16 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 17 | I cite the twentieth century in his defence . |
| 18 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 19 | I mean the second main paymaster of myself , you know , is the university , in fact , and erm without them I do n't suppose I could have sort of financed the extra side of sort of clothing and everything else for my mayoralty . |
| 20 | I mean the first time at a lower level something appeared , I shaded half a square |
| 21 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 22 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 23 | To minimize confusion , I shall use consumerism where I mean the first , and the consumer movement to denote the second . |
| 24 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 25 | It was just really terrible I mean the first I was just scared stiff that I never could n't enjoy the dance on Sanday I was that scared of the thought coming back . |
| 26 | Yeah it is , I mean the first time I bought it |
| 27 | On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if |
| 28 | No erm well I , I mean the first day er in the , the mor |
| 29 | No , I mean the first |
| 30 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |