Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adj] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah does n't do it oh I 'll be bother if I get a cold next week .
2 I recall at this period that I had a new second pilot by the name of Saltzgaber , who was first generation Canadian but German born , The target was Mannheim , When we got into the area we found that thick cloud covered what we thought was tie target , so we went down , But there was no way we were going to get under .
3 Many years later , he found himself assigned a new First Pilot .
4 This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament .
5 The Manor forms the focus of a group of stone buildings which include a fine 16th century Dovecote and an archaeological exhibition .
6 Only Harris , who played a fine third game against Chris Dittmar , the World Open finalist , provided much joy .
7 Crawford , who had a bad second lap , lost 76 marks , 50 more than the winner former champion Jordi Tarres .
8 Although the Australians , who had a magnificent second half , only pulled away to a resounding victory in the last ten minutes , the harsh truth is that the Boks never looked like scoring .
9 She drank a quick second glass of wine and did her best to smile round the table .
10 If you buy a different second rod you will have to learn this all over again , but more important , when you are fishing with both rods you will never work with them instinctively .
11 Now that is a word you seldom come across in England , but away up in the Highlands and Islands being " fey " means that you have a certain sixth sense — you are the seventh son of a seventh son , or whatever the drama is on that score .
12 Tankerville Digby , who gained a creditable twenty-second place with 805 points .
13 The perception of Dr John Viney of Heidrick and Struggles — and that of the clients with whom he has spoken — is this : to be recruited as a consultant in Egon Zehnder one needs a strong first degree , plus a business degree , usually an MBA .
14 We run a lower sixth form residential summer school for kids , which has been very popular for the past five years .
15 The important thing to remember is that wherever we find a minor 7th chord in any key ( major or minor ) we also have a minor pentatonic scale .
16 Before closing this section we offer a delightful second proof of this last theorem in which ( the reader is invited to verify ) no use is made of the concept of primeness .
17 Now playing at inside-right , Whitworth was top scorer with 16 goals , but he also combined with Frank so effectively that we had a comfortable 2nd Division season , and then he headed our scoring chart again in 1924–25 .
18 Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded .
19 Responding to concerns raised by Dell Computer Corp 's fiscal first quarter report ( CI No 2,176 ) , Compaq Computer Corp says it looks forward to reporting a strong second quarter : ‘ With the first signs of economic recovery in Europe and the surge in demand generated by the introductions of our powerful new 486SL-based Compaq Contura and Compaq LTE Lite notebook families in March and this month , we see a strong second quarter , ’ it said .
20 They broke a rear first floor window and smashed an internal door to get to a quantity of cash at the surgery in Market Place .
21 And they do a 30 second version of ‘ Smells Like Teen Spirit ’ that was funny at Reading but betrays a shortage of new jokes .
22 Bodo and Bockenfeld scored Werder 's goals as they overcame a 1–0 first leg defecit but tension was high in Bremen , both on and off the field .
23 He made a successful first ascent of the south ridge of his country 's highest mountain , Mount Cook , before getting a taste of the European Alps in 1950 .
24 He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 .
25 Sixteen-year-old Michael , from Stowmarket , has been shooting for just over two years , and his dedication and practice paid off as he came a magnificent third place in the senior compound section .
26 By 1899 , having collected almost every available Prize and Exhibition there , he had obtained a First Class Honours degree in History at the London Examination , and his School Exhibition was extended to take him to Balliol College , Oxford , where he obtained a further First Class in History in 1903 .
27 Although he knew it was to soothe himself rather than a.i. ’ he spent a few last minutes communing with Thoth by neural link , explaining yet again how grieved he was to have to ask it to give its ‘ life ’ for him .
28 Out of 300 good class competitors , he achieved a brilliant second place on a hilly route in 59 mins. 7 secs .
29 Epicurus had a mundane philosophy yet despite suffering intense pain of the intestines , he enjoyed a blissful last day on earth .
30 It needed a strong third party to intercede between Frank and me ; such a person was not available .
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