Example sentences of "[noun] in the [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 2 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 4 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 5 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 6 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 7 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 8 | At this point in the twentieth century we should no longer be so innocent . |
| 9 | From small beginnings in the eighteenth century it prospered in the depression after 1814 . |
| 10 | That that , well you know if there 's a query in the next fortnight we know where they are do n't we ? |
| 11 | He 's cost us , cost us a million pounds in the first year he was a councillor . |
| 12 | Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want . |
| 13 | Ever since Machiavelli wrote The Prince and The Discourses in the sixteenth century he has been associated with the ugly side of political activity . |
| 14 | After damage in the Fourth Crusade it was further restored and added to in the fourteenth century ( 192 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’ |
| 16 | And when he clashed with Mario Cantaluppi in the 65th minute he was sent packing . |
| 17 | ‘ When I lost that opening game in the fourth set I said to myself ‘ this is your match ’ . |
| 18 | STUDENT and part-time chef Michael Pearson has won a top national prize in the first competition he has entered . |
| 19 | By the time that Captain Cook was engaged in his voyages of exploration in the Pacific in the late-eighteenth century it was taken for granted that the inhabitants of the newly discovered islands would be men and not monsters , but cannibalism was still seen as somehow sub-human . |
| 20 | Almost as this detailed organisation reached its peak in the fourteenth century it was , as we shall see , to break irreversibly . |
| 21 | And the reason in the first place I did leave the building trade was my hands was breaking out with in industrial disease , see ? |
| 22 | When Marshall took Curtis 's wicket in the second innings he had 35 for the series ( the average finishing at 12.65 each ) , beating Fred Trueman 's much stronger team ) and the West Indian record of 33 for most wickets in any Test rubber . |
| 23 | There is a Biblical cadence in the last words he shares with his mother : ‘ Wherever there 's a fight so hungry people can eat , I 'll be there . |
| 24 | Gascoigne replied within a minute with a close-range effort and as Lazio piled on the pressure in the second half they were rewarded with five minutes to go when Cristiano Bergodi headed home . |
| 25 | Erm the budget increase is for Social Fund , for years , eighty seven and eight eight was two ninety five thousand , one hundred and ninety , under the new system in the first year it went down to fifty seven thousand one oh seven . |
| 26 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 27 | But if we do n't get into that position in the first place we 'll be out . |
| 28 | When the Cistercians , ‘ White Monks ’ , came from Burgundy in the twelfth century they sought ‘ wildernesses ’ for their life of vigorous contemplation . |
| 29 | Then with the acquisition of Gascony in the mid-eleventh century they became rulers of Bordeaux and overlords of a number of counties and lordships extending from the mouth of the Garonne to the Pyrenees , in area about twice the size of Poitou . |
| 30 | At some time in the 19th century it became a school , then reverted to being a private house , but was in a sadly neglected state when bought by Major and Mrs Anthony Burke in 1953 . |