Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 2 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 3 | If undemanding schooling methods , supplemented by hours in front of cretinous , discontinuous TV programmes , have given them a thirty-second attention span , poor linguistic skills , therefore poor conceptualising and critical powers , and a craving for instant entertainment , then it will not matter what cultural policy a government adopts . |
| 4 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 5 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 6 | They wo n't catch me a second time . |
| 7 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 8 | Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning . |
| 9 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 10 | He began gathering the books together , handling them with exaggerated care and opening them a second time to gaze at Melissa 's signature . |
| 11 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |
| 12 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 13 | She bore him a third son , but a difficult carriage and birth presaged troubles which eventually cost her her life in her forties . |
| 14 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I just do n't fancy tackling her a third time . ’ |
| 16 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 17 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 18 | Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed . |
| 19 | CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year . |
| 20 | If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’ |
| 21 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
| 22 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 23 | If you dive after a surface interval of more than 10 minutes , the Solution will consider it a second dive , and dive time will start again from zero . |
| 24 | ‘ You could always consider it a last request . ’ |
| 25 | Could she survive it a second time ? |
| 26 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 27 | It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning . |
| 28 | It 's fucking madness , I 'll ge I mean it kills me the next day , it 's madness , I do n't know why I do it . |
| 29 | have n't seen him , it 's Dr I think that 's attended me the last time . |
| 30 | Do they give them a second thought ? |