Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 2 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 3 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 4 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 5 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 6 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 7 | he has n't missed one since the second world war |
| 8 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 9 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 10 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 11 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 12 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 13 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 14 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 15 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 16 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 17 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 18 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 19 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 20 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 21 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 22 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 23 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 24 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 25 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 26 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 27 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
| 28 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 29 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 30 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |