Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 2 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 3 | This will make them the first and fifth most visited attractions in the world , with the other three being existing Disney sites . |
| 4 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 5 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 6 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 7 | His ability to deliver the C2 blue-collar , Essex-man vote has , arguably , won them the last two general elections . |
| 8 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 9 | Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning . |
| 10 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 11 | ’ Aye , ye mentioned somethin' the last time I wis up . ’ |
| 12 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 13 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 14 | We do not know who the first organist in the old church were . |
| 15 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 16 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |
| 17 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 18 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 19 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 20 | Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed . |
| 21 | I wan na try it with one of these three , twenty three hour systems , supposed to work it the last |
| 22 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 23 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 24 | I want to know what the first three digits are . ’ |
| 25 | Once more a terrible curiosity overcame him , to know what the third girl looked like . |
| 26 | What was , does anybody know what the first term was ? |
| 27 | " I do n't know what the next step will be but someone will make the breakthrough " said Cadogan . |
| 28 | ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring . |
| 29 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 30 | It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change . |