Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy , Stuart did get on as a 64th minute substitute , but added : ‘ It seems everyone else gets straight back into the side after injury except me . |
| 2 | The 19-stone prop , cleared by the French RU Federation , went on as a second half replacement and played for almost half an hour . |
| 3 | Still , Mel was good enough for a first team place in our first year back and did OK . |
| 4 | Now , in a mood of heady exhilaration , a delicious scenario flashed in his mind ; the school drop-out , on his way to take delivery of his own Jumbo Jet , literally dropping back in during a First XI cricket match with two of the most celebrated test cricketers in the world in tow . |
| 5 | They 're OK , we guess , which does n't say much for them until you realise that thousands of their guitar-laden brethren are desperately striving to funk up and freak out and end up sounding merely like a 15th rate version of something that was once quite good . |
| 6 | You will have to get him to talk , perhaps with a third person present so the discussion does n't degenerate into a row . |
| 7 | Indeed , TP watchers say a range of interfaces are urgently needed to unify disparate OEM Tuxedo implementations along with a fourth generation language tool . |
| 8 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 9 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 10 | Rose of Lima wrote no spiritual works ; influenced , in her time at least , no worldly powers ; reformed no evil Church authorities ; fought no public battles ; and lived anyway in a Third World country thousands of miles from the centre of things . |
| 11 | The remnants were not from a Second World War Spitfire , as some believed , but from a Hawker Hunter jet which crashed on a routine flight 33 years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not easy to give a two-goal lead away to a First Division side and then show the character to come back and win the game . |
| 13 | And then a percent I could get you a percent off as a first time buyer . |
| 14 | Referee Alf Buksh ignores the crowd 's calls for Hughes to be sent off after a 69th minute foul . |
| 15 | WEST Ham 's Steve Potts opened the scoring against Ipswich in Frank Yallop 's testimonial yesterday with a 63rd minute header only to see Neil Thompson equalise from a penalty . |
| 16 | Close to a second Tour victory this season , he currently lies in 16th position on the Order of Merit with some £187,883 . |
| 17 | Halfway through his talk , the meeting was suddenly interrupted by a cadre of men dressed as prison guards ; these rather realistic toughs burst into the room , grabbed everybody there , and took them out to a set of waiting helicopters , which flew the bewildered executives off to a second meeting site . |
| 18 | For a variety of very sound reasons , it will not be possible in many areas to contemplate the setting up of a Sixth Form College . |
| 19 | Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy . |
| 20 | Lee Sharpe 's fourth goal in three games opened the way after seven minutes , Cantona rapped in a 45th minute penalty and Steve Bruce wrapped it up with an 88th minute header . |
| 21 | The staircase sweeps up to a first floor balcony connecting four bedrooms , most with en suite bathrooms . |
| 22 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 23 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 24 | This must help to make up for her disappointment in the Cowal Championships when , due to an error in the markings , she missed out on a fourth place medal . |
| 25 | Falling behind to a 30th minute goal from Doey , Armoy got back on level terms when Holmes scored a superb goal in the 50th minute . |
| 26 | Boro had fallen behind to a fourth minute penalty on a ground where they were seeking their first win since 1938 . |
| 27 | As the second round of European matches gets into full swing tonight , Rangers can only sit back and watch after tumbling out to a last minute goal from Levski Sofia . |
| 28 | This exercise was carried out by a third year group in a secondary school studying a cholera epidemic . |
| 29 | Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art . |
| 30 | The facilities for travellers and the ever present interest of the Inca remains made this an easy city to spend time in , but the darker side of Peru 's history had found its way into the present and thus highlighted the problems of fitting a comfortable tourist face on to a Third World country . |