Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The man they call Lurch was the villain of the piece after his uncharacteristic boob let in Oldham for an 85th minute equaliser .
2 He came to Tom as a last , desperate resort .
3 In Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 Q.B. ) , the buyer had been supplied in March with a second hand car which was not of merchantable quality because its brakes were defective .
4 On Nov. 25 Dijoud arrived from Paris for a second visit , this time with a letter from President François Mitterrand for Gouled Aptidon .
5 It put Otley in a romantic mood and he suggested going to Margate for a second honeymoon .
6 The FBO was bought by Toyota as a first step in learning more about the GA business .
7 Many delegates already won by Tsongas and Brown will probably rally to Clinton on a second ballot .
8 If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate .
9 A unilateral ceasefire announced by the Muslim government to coincide with the lifting of the aid boycott appeared to have reduced shelling around Sarajevo for a third day yesterday .
10 Former Hull boss Brian Smith has had a mystery offer to return to England with a First Division club next year .
11 Alastair McIver reports from Eastbourne on a 10th title for Navratilova
12 Jean-Baptiste Lafond moves from wing to centre and his brother Jean-Marc returns to Leicester for a second successive fraternal link in the fixture .
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