Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angela helps me with this task in between proofreading first drafts , checking names and collating and typing the Amicus News , Intimations and Exam Successes sections . |
| 2 | More important even than Humpty Dumpty for understanding last hundred years , he wrote . |
| 3 | And after seeing second half goals from Anders Limpar and Ian Wright end his side 's Premier League duck , Graham said : ‘ When Arsenal are n't doing well the media seems to revel in it . |
| 4 | TMD Advertising Holdings reported an 81 per cent rise in profits to £2.2million after including first results from TMD Manchester , together with Yershon Group , Horizons Media Outdoor , Harrison Salinson and Michael Jarvis which were all acquired during the year to August . |
| 5 | And veteran player David McCreery could also figure in Feetham 's future after announcing last night he has played his last game for Hartlepool United . |
| 6 | The company is paying an interim dividend of 0.2p , after passing last year 's final , against 0.4p in the comparable period . |
| 7 | After attempting last month 's first 8-bars of the 16-bar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day , we 'll crack on with the second half this month . |
| 8 | ‘ After leading last year I then relaxed , partly because I did n't know what to expect , and ended up missing the four-round cut by one shot . ’ |
| 9 | must wait to find out whether they have won promotion from North-East Two after securing fourth place with a 1210 win away to second-placed Thornensians . |
| 10 | After scoring first through Dave Mitchell , Tranmere 's Kenny Irons pulled off a hat trick and Swindon were sunk . |
| 11 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 12 | The SAR ( South Asian Religious ) News service has officially inaugurated its new offices in Bombay , India , after moving last year from New Delhi . |
| 13 | Trainer Francois Doumen is clearly considering plundering more foreign prizes after contesting next week 's Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 14 | Titmuss , who only returned to the club this season after spending last year with the Telford Tigers , blitzed four goals inside 14 minutes of the opening period . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the government filed a law suit against the Westinghouse Corporation claiming that the latter had built a defective 620-MW generating plant in Bataan after having first offered commission to the previous government in order to win the contract . |
| 16 | After starting last year with net debt of £6.3m , it now has net cash of almost £4m . |
| 17 | Mr Barrantes , 61 , bowed out of the 1985 presidential elections after coming second in the first ballot . |
| 18 | Commentators calculated that without tactical voting by supporters of the liberal Democratic Party ( which fell to third place after coming second in 1989 ) , the NP would have lost . |
| 19 | Nigel Mansell was certainly whacked yesterday … on the verge of collapse after coming second to Ayrton Senna in the Monacco Grand Prix |
| 20 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 21 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 22 | AFTER finishing 12th in the last World Cup in Lahore coach Cees Koppelaar pledged to ‘ create a new Ireland . ’ |
| 23 | Both were frustrated after finishing 12th and 14th respectively and said a new front wing and problems with traffic had caused their problems . |
| 24 | He finished second to Duke Of Monmouth in the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham in March , and will be spot on after finishing fifth on the Flat in the Leopardstown November Handicap . |
| 25 | Flash Of Straw , trained at Epsom by Geoff Lewis , tested positive to a prohibited substance after finishing sixth in the HMS Cromer Handicap on 20 August . |
| 26 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 27 | BRITAIN 'S Dave Lewis won £8,000 yesterday after finishing third in the IAAF world cross country challenge at Mol , Belgium , won by Olympic 10,000 metres champion Khalid Skah . |
| 28 | ANDY Jones lifted the Winter League Trophy after finishing third in the final match fished at Pakefield . |
| 29 | Under the terms of Belau 's new electoral system the number of candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency had been narrowed to two through the holding of a first round elections on Sept. 22 , when incumbent President Ngiratkel Etpison was eliminated after finishing third with 24.8 per cent , behind Nakamura with 37.2 per cent and Toribiong with 37.9 per cent . |
| 30 | At Talaq had won the Grand Prix de Paris after finishing fourth in the Derby , and French challenger Mont Basile had won four races during the season . |