Example sentences of "[vb past] the [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head bent slowly down to her , his eyes burned deeper and , held immovable , she endured the first kiss she had ever received . |
| 2 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 3 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At length , she located the literature department and , entering , asked the first student she came upon where she might find Dr McKitrick . |
| 6 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 7 | ‘ I got the first ferry I could after I heard … |
| 8 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 9 | Erm we approached the first project we were looking at the information we had available er , looking at the strength of the work a lot of information As you can see the er and , and looking at the er a definite lack of |
| 10 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 11 | When Charlie woke the next morning he jumped out of bed immediately and was washed and dressed before anyone else had stirred . |
| 12 | She went back to bed but when she woke the next morning she was in terrible pain and called a nurse for help . |
| 13 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 14 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 15 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , for goodness ’ sake ! ’ he squeaked the third time it happened . |
| 17 | We learnt the next day he had had to hand in his uniform and get off the job as fast as he could . |
| 18 | There was a hush of expectancy as he walked to the wicket … but this is what happened the first ball he faced … |
| 19 | She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there . |
| 20 | To his surprise a smile began to tug at her cheeks and when she finished the second reading she laughed aloud as though in relief . |
| 21 | The varnish held tiny , solid pieces of silver metal which stayed on the pieces of tissue Philippa was using and scratched the next nail she treated . |
| 22 | I figured the last interview I 'd given them , right after the bombing of Flight 103 , had probably been the root cause of why my life had been turned inside out , and I was n't looking for any more trouble . |
| 23 | And when he heard the first crash he determined to intervene , in some way that would not dispute the authority of the headmaster 's wife . |
| 24 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 25 | But the way he landed the third time I knew he would n't get up again . |
| 26 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 27 | Almost wrenching off the fragile beaded jacket , and unfastening the strapless dress so that it plummeted to the floor , she grabbed the first garments she found — light pink cotton trousers and a grey and white striped cotton blouse — then forced her feet into flat leather sandals without stopping to undo and refasten the thin buckled straps . |
| 28 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 29 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 30 | The names of Eaux-Bonnes 's hotels still have the old pompous ring to them , the Hôtel d'Orient et d'Espagne , the Hôtel Richelieu , the Hôtel tea Princes ( the ‘ dearest ’ in a ‘ very wealthy little modern town ’ in Hilaire Belloc 's day , but up for sale and miserably vandalized the last time I saw it , in the mid-1980s ) , but their clients are not what they once were . |