Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 2 | The second drawing I submit to your lively discernment is the indigo bush , from which a deep and lustrous shade of blue is obtained by a kind of alchemy . |
| 3 | The second question I have with your permission sir . |
| 4 | And the second point I think about this year 's intake is that , in terms of A-level grades , it 's particularly good . |
| 5 | The second point I want to er make Mr Deputy Speaker wholly relating to this erm er clutch of er orders of which er eighteen plus the er the schedule which the minister did n't have time to go through in great detail , is the thrust of why I put the amendment down erm in fact that this order should not be er erm approved indeed until the citizens of Gibraltar have been and able to be represented in the European parliament . |
| 6 | The second conclusion I drew about change masters ' individual skills was their ability to articulate and communicate visions . |
| 7 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 8 | The second thing I welcomed from him was the need to get away from outward Western forms in worship and adopt meaningful indigenous forms . |
| 9 | Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar . |
| 10 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 11 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 12 | ‘ When I lost that opening game in the fourth set I said to myself ‘ this is your match ’ . |
| 13 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 14 | In the first part I argue for the inclusion of gender awareness as a valid dimension of educational analysis of the arts and , as a vehicle for this argument , posit a set of four general criteria which might legitimately be used by arts educators as part of a re-evaluation of the arts curriculum in this regard . |
| 15 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 16 | CARL LLEWELLYN ( Party Politics ) : ‘ As soon as he jumped the first fence I gained in confidence . |
| 17 | I sometimes think back to that first talk I did in Mr Taylor 's class , and how scared I was . |
| 18 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 19 | The contributors will largely be from the educational faculty at the University , and in this first programme I have with me Professor Tony Becher , who is Chairman of the Education Area . |
| 20 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 21 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 22 | Oh I was and I used to go , and the first place I went to , let me think , it was Dunoon . |
| 23 | In the summer of 1991 , I had another mink film to make — this time for Wildlife on One — and the first place I thought of was the logjam on the River Usk . |
| 24 | When this happens , the first place I look for trouble is at the sinker posts . |
| 25 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 26 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 27 | ‘ From that first moment I felt like his mother . |
| 28 | By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war . |
| 29 | In my first article I wrote of the ingenuity and imagination I saw in children 's play in Asia . |
| 30 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |