Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimbledon looked set to cause an upset through Lawrie Sanchez 's 53rd-minute header , but Mark Robins levelled after 77 with his 12th of the season , and Phillips struck two minutes from time to put Norwich eight points clear at the top . |
| 2 | England and Quins stalwart Peter Winterbottom came through unscathed in his first match following a recent hernia operation . |
| 3 | ‘ He was also seen by one of my first cousins walking up and down the corridor . |
| 4 | The sky darkened and the moon came out , going from full into its last quarter , and bright as a chunk of Wensleydale cheese . |
| 5 | I still remember the thrill of my first car bought in 1953 with my 21st birthday money . |
| 6 | The first came in 1977–8 against Australia and he began with fifties in his first three innings , only to join the Packer brigade and miss out for a couple of years . |
| 7 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 8 | group are kindly attending to this at our next meeting . |
| 9 | A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette . |
| 10 | India were reduced to 71-6 in their second innings , a lead of just eight runs by the close of the third day in the third Test at Port Elizabeth . |
| 11 | Watson 's replacement Chris Pringle went for 50 in his first 11 overs , and England were away , never to be caught . |
| 12 | For that reason it went in early for its second service — and not before time because it was starting to run roughly . |
| 13 | That was the year — 1931 — when the Youth Hostels Association was formed , and Clare went on one of their first trips , organised by the local school , to a hostel in the Dukeries , not far north in Lincolnshire . |
| 14 | ‘ If we play like that in our last four games we will not go down . ’ |
| 15 | Even then , Lloyd went down fighting with 72 in his last innings ; it took him to a total of 7,515 runs at 46 , with nineteen centuries . |
| 16 | Yet he waited until 1986 for his first official race on the dirt and began his tarmac career just a year later . |
| 17 | If you can not make it on that night , come to one of our First Friday meetings . |
| 18 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |