Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No second thought at all . |
| 2 | When I first got into this thing I did n't ask too many questions . |
| 3 | The candidate and unit enrolment data is cumulative in that , for example , the courses enrolled for in 1991–2 will include the new Batch 2 courses first validated for that year — but will also include candidates enrolling for the second cycle of Batch 1 , the third cycle of Phase 2 pilots , etc . |
| 4 | ( When , as a schoolgirl , I first came across that line about the morning stars singing together , I was thrilled by it . ) |
| 5 | A Japanese aristocrat , which I first came across many years ago in a Berkshire woodland garden , is Kirengeshoma palmata , with large , lobed , vine-like leaves on dark 3ft stems . |
| 6 | When I first came across this text my mind went to the Athanasian Creed which describes the Godhead as uncreated , infinite , eternal and incomprehensible . |
| 7 | We first came across this South Sea adventurer on the fourth week of cruising around the Caribbean on our Hallberg Rassy 352 , writes Jenny Allan . |
| 8 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
| 9 | He has worked for South African companies and first came to this country on a De Beers scholarship to Oxford . |
| 10 | When I first came to this room , I did n't like it , then I thought , ‘ Well at least it 's mine . |
| 11 | When they first came to this country — like my mum , when she first came she said she could n't find a place to live because people did n't want black people on their premises . |
| 12 | ‘ My dear , since we first came to this terrible place you are the only person to show me true consideration . ’ |
| 13 | And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through . |
| 14 | I did I was n't even here when you had it like when you first came to this school . |
| 15 | Indeed , I recall the experiences of the person who was Prime Minister when I first came into this House — Mr. Harold Macmillan . |
| 16 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 17 | Intriguingly foreshadowing our contemporary women 's liberation movement , some of these stalwart Victorians envisaged that the evolutionary struggle then involved domination by the female since , they argued , women first rebelled against these loose promiscuous relations to queen it over men . |
| 18 | I first heard of this when camping at the foot of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire in 1960 . |
| 19 | I first heard about this job from Mrs Gwendoline Hancock of Ipswich . |
| 20 | These ‘ Holiday Boutique ’ guys do produce rather explicit brochures ; I mean , I threw a wobbly when I first heard about this Med plumbing lark . |
| 21 | when when I first heard about this it was at 's Engines |
| 22 | They first hit on this method because they were suddenly deprived of their darkroom , shortly before they had to prepare a show . |
| 23 | Development continued and the 3D wing was modified to the super critical wing , and first flew with this wing on 6 May 77 . |
| 24 | first knew of this when one of the coins stuck to his magnetic key-retainer — the steel core is a soft magnet that becomes magnetized in an applied field . |
| 25 | What 's your first thought about that ? |
| 26 | I first felt like that when I slashed somebody . |
| 27 | Your eyes first looked into these words |
| 28 | Now since we first looked into this erm Rockhill site over two years ago , two things have happened . |
| 29 | Well there was n't when I first looked at that file . |
| 30 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |