Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] [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 | ‘ He was also seen by one of my first cousins walking up and down the corridor . |
3 | I still remember the thrill of my first car bought in 1953 with my 21st birthday money . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Watson 's replacement Chris Pringle went for 50 in his first 11 overs , and England were away , never to be caught . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Yet he waited until 1986 for his first official race on the dirt and began his tarmac career just a year later . |
11 | If you can not make it on that night , come to one of our First Friday meetings . |
12 | 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 : |