Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 2 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 3 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 4 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 5 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 6 | ‘ My coach , Malcolm Arnold , told me that you do n't win gold medals performing like I did in the first round . |
| 7 | This scale has an Eastern flavour to it caused by the fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth degrees . |
| 8 | Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month . |