Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 2 | The second conclusion I drew about change masters ' individual skills was their ability to articulate and communicate visions . |
| 3 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 4 | The second thing I welcomed from him was the need to get away from outward Western forms in worship and adopt meaningful indigenous forms . |
| 5 | Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar . |
| 6 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 7 | ‘ When I lost that opening game in the fourth set I said to myself ‘ this is your match ’ . |
| 8 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 9 | CARL LLEWELLYN ( Party Politics ) : ‘ As soon as he jumped the first fence I gained in confidence . |
| 10 | I sometimes think back to that first talk I did in Mr Taylor 's class , and how scared I was . |
| 11 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 12 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 13 | Oh I was and I used to go , and the first place I went to , let me think , it was Dunoon . |
| 14 | In the summer of 1991 , I had another mink film to make — this time for Wildlife on One — and the first place I thought of was the logjam on the River Usk . |
| 15 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 16 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 17 | ‘ From that first moment I felt like his mother . |
| 18 | By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war . |
| 19 | In my first article I wrote of the ingenuity and imagination I saw in children 's play in Asia . |
| 20 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 21 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 22 | First person I thought about this morning was you . |
| 23 | In fact I was born in Manchester and Violet Carson ( alias Ena Sharples ) was the first person I introduced on TV when I was 20 . |
| 24 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 25 | And the first person I danced with was ‘ him ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I went to the Defence Ministry stand — but the first person I spoke to simply shrugged and walked away . |
| 27 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 28 | ‘ The very first night I played with him , he 's up there blowing and he walks over to me and says , ‘ Play somethin' , Robben . ’ |
| 29 | That 's my first station I came to Zurich . |
| 30 | ‘ The first day I went into school wearing shalwar kameez a teacher said to me , ‘ Are you all right , Yasmin ? |