Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 2 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 3 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 4 | Thoroughly wet wood has something like a third of the strength and stiffness of completely dry wood . |
| 5 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 7 | He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant . |
| 8 | My wife treats ours like a second handbag — it 's full of rubbish . |
| 9 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 10 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
| 11 | Airdrie had something of a fifth column working for them . |
| 12 | I think other people see you as a second class citizen . |
| 13 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 14 | Thus midday discovered me with a second scotch in my hand , a Pakki nightie round my waist , and a half-naked sex-stewardess straddling my thighs . |
| 15 | Where a defendant in the face of evidence that a woman demonstrated lack of consent , alleges belief in consent on the basis of information given him by a third party , he may well , whether expressly or impliedly , be appealing to the idea of female masochism . |
| 16 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 17 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 18 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |