Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second offence I was given a suspended sentence . |
| 2 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 3 | About eight o'clock on the eighth day I was told to pack my stuff up , because at seven o'clock the next morning I was going to Styal . |
| 4 | I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob . |
| 5 | At the end of the first year I was summoned to the Dean 's office . |
| 6 | For the first offence I was given a fine . |
| 7 | It felt a bit lonely , the first night I was crying upstairs because all my family came , and me and my sister are really close and it was upsetting to leave her . |
| 8 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 9 | Hi , this is the first time I am posting to the list . |
| 10 | Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable . |
| 11 | The first time I was strung out I did n't know what it was . |
| 12 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 13 | That was the first time I was to see pain and suffering at close quarters . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ In Africa , ’ she continues , ‘ it was the first time I was confronted by these women that were fearless with each other . |
| 15 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 16 | In Stepney 40 per cent of the parishioners were Jews , and almost in the first week I was to become aware of something new , when the rector , Bertram Simpson , later Bishop of Southwark , suddenly said to me , ‘ Tomorrow is the Day of Atonement . |
| 17 | The first task I was given was to bathe an elderly spinster . |
| 18 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 19 | But last night at his home in Bradford , he said : ‘ The first thing I 'm going to do is have it cut . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 22 | ‘ The first job I was robbed of by Progress , ’ he told the boys , but added darkly , ‘ and the Yanks . ’ |
| 23 | So I was taken in and the first job I was taken , by this young fella , eighteenish , big chap to me , but he said , Come on young'un , this is what you 've got ta do . |
| 24 | It was the first place I was refused accommodation . |
| 25 | After the fifth anchoring I was beginning to despair , when a thought struck me — I was forgetting the scope of the dinghy 's painter . |
| 26 | On the third day I was allowed down to dinner , and we were very appreciative of the good meal , and His Lordship 's well-made coffee . |
| 27 | His term of office came between those of two Ministers with close associations with Portadown — the Reverend R H Gallagher BA ( whose first sermon at the beginning of his last term in Portadown had a singularly apposite text : ‘ This is the third time I am coming to you ’ II Corinthians 13 v 1 ) and the Reverend W. E Morley Thompson . |
| 28 | It was the last peace I was to savour , for quite a long time . |
| 29 | I give you my word there will be one , if it 's the last case I am allowed to handle . ’ |
| 30 | Until the last minute I was revising our document , often making significant alterations , and ringing up members of the Group for their assent . |