Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 2 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 3 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't go , so I went to the second night . |
| 5 | Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews . |
| 6 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 7 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 8 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 9 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 10 | One roadie said I should have thought about it before I accepted in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 12 | I have waited 20 years for a decision on the Ardrossan-Saltcoats-Stevenston bypass , and I am sure that the Minister will give me a favourable result before I retire at the next election . |
| 13 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 14 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 15 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 16 | When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics . |
| 17 | Then when I came to the third I did not like it . |
| 18 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 19 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 20 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 21 | Every month I look in your magazine for anything to do with Dalmations and I was overjoyed when I looked at the last page . |
| 22 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 23 | Yet when I awake to the next day and my leaden legs , the flat is dark with disrepair — the light in the fridge has gone out , the milk is off . |
| 24 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 25 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 26 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 27 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 28 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
| 29 | As I said on the second reading , I do believe that some areas will need to have larger authorities because of their size , or indeed their particular problems , geographical and otherwise . |
| 30 | As I said in the nineteenth century government did very little . |