Example sentences of "[pron] [num ord] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not even aware that , until I had my first bought suit , that flies had been invented ! |
| 2 | MY FIRST remembered visit to Bilsdale , in the North York Moors , was on a junior school bus trip circa 1947 . |
| 3 | It was a nonsense they tried to teach me when I first made records , you must always do it faster . |
| 4 | After university , they lived together platonically in Kennington and later Maida Vale for several years , ‘ before I first made advances , which resulted in six months ’ non-speaking from her ’ , Gould says cryptically . |
| 5 | For example , in the scene where John first meets Mary , ‘ I did n't have the attitude right , and Peter said , ‘ Do you remember how you were when I first brought Mia backstage to meet you ? ’ |
| 6 | When I first saw Moila it was on a beautiful day in the last week of June . |
| 7 | I first saw Seve at the PGA Championship , which he won , at Royal St Georges in 1975 . |
| 8 | I first saw Salamanca at a certain moment of dusk when the setting sun still casts a deep red glow over the city 's rosy stone . |
| 9 | I first saw Moby at the photo session for the cover of the new video ‘ It 's a Dog 's Life … and how to enjoy it ’ . |
| 10 | I 'll admit I felt just like you do when I first saw Townshend doing his smashing act ; I would have died for the SG he splintered at Woodstock ! |
| 11 | Honestly , Henry , when I think back to when I first saw Andrew Jones in that mucky room , the thin weed of a lad with nothing about him , I can not believe he 's the same person represented by Mr Andrew Jones , not only head of the showrooms , but … |
| 12 | Oh , I confess to feeling a pang when I first saw David again — I would n't be human if I had n't — but , as I said before , it was over between us a very long time ago , probably even before I fell for Paul if the truth be known . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I first saw Lily when she was fourteen , and I was a year older , soon after my breakdown . |
| 14 | I thought when I first saw Mr. Belville at the masquerade that he was the finest gentleman I had ever seen . |
| 15 | I stood in that upper gallery where I first saw Dana and he cast that look upon me which was to make me his slave . |
| 16 | I was sitting outside a little café in Avignon enjoying a quiet glass of Pernod when I first saw Emily . |
| 17 | When I first knew Emerson , the days of his glory were in the past . |
| 18 | I first knew Mr Rocke some twelve years ago when on a course at Woolley Hall . |
| 19 | when I first wore ankles . |
| 20 | The authors he found most helpful in this ‘ interim ’ period were all mystics , or figures who emphasized spirit over matter — MacDonald , William Ralph Inge , Jacob Boehme , whose quasi-theosophical , semi-astrological De Signatura Rerum ( The Signatures of Things ) gave him ‘ about the biggest shaking up I 've got from a book , since I first read Phantastes ’ . |
| 21 | When I first read Nairn ( it was published in 1987 ) I had not been contemplating Johnson : now , in the late sunlight coming through my bedroom window , I rushed to him and Boswell . |
| 22 | I first read Punch in the school library in 1962 and have read it ever since . |
| 23 | When I first met Christopher Pilkington at the Centre I had no idea he was a priest and remember asking if he was the healer as one might question a plumber 's identity . |
| 24 | It was in the context of ‘ direction ’ that I first met Julian of Norwich and subsequently a wealth of other spiritual classics . |
| 25 | I first met Basil forty years ago . |
| 26 | I first met Basil in Wakefield during the spring of 1959 and was fortunate to find myself working with him on the West Riding vacation course at Ilkley later that year . |
| 27 | ‘ Now there is one of nature 's gentlemen , ’ someone had told me at Monaco in 1975 when I first met Mario . |
| 28 | I first met Ben Johnson at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham just prior to the Commonwealth Games . |
| 29 | When I first met Chris and Pauline Lloyd to discuss their garden and take a look at its one-in-three slope , I was filled with a mixture of admiration for them , and horror at the task ahead . |
| 30 | Here is what he says in L'Europe Déraisonnable , published in 1992 by Valmonde : I first met Philippe de Villier in London on 22 July 1992 , when he proposed the concept of a family of European nations , a softer version of de Gaulle 's Europe des patries . |