Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the [num ord] [noun sg] " 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 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 3 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 4 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 5 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 6 | Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning . |
| 7 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 8 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 11 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning . |
| 16 | It 's fucking madness , I 'll ge I mean it kills me the next day , it 's madness , I do n't know why I do it . |
| 17 | have n't seen him , it 's Dr I think that 's attended me the last time . |
| 18 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 19 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 20 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 21 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 22 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 23 | But I can show you , I can show you the eighth floor and show you where the gang where is the eighth floor ? |
| 24 | Mr Coker was a forward-looking fellow : ‘ And now ’ , he said , ‘ let me show you the third class coach of the future . |
| 25 | With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was . |
| 26 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 27 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 29 | And would Feargal now give him the third degree ? |
| 30 | … commanded his armie to halt , and himselfe went alone to the toppe where , having sighted the Mar del Sur , he knelt down and raising his hands to Heaven , pouring forth mighty praises to God for His great grace in having made him the first man to discover and sight it . |