Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He holed a great putt on the last for a five and we both shot 71s because Nick hit a poor second shot on the last and he took a bogey five as well .
2 His creditors met on the 28th and they read a letter from their debtor telling them the law was an enemy he could not conquer .
3 Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’
4 ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained .
5 I rang up Derek and Jenny came up to tell us and she said er Eileen 'll be coming on the twentieth and she wo n't be here till between eleven and twelve .
6 We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time !
7 On we went , par after par , until we got to the 16th and I thought , this must be it .
8 I now turn to the third and what I think is the most worrying issue , the position of teachers falsely accused of abusing children in their care .
9 She will arrive on September 1st and depart on the 2nd and I trust you will make her welcome as I know all our mother 's daughters would .
10 No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it .
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