Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 It had been a melancholic day , although Winston Churchill had at last been called into the War Cabinet , gracing its inaugural meeting as First Lord of the Admiralty .
2 He took to the front on the second lap and left Dave Milling , Woolsey Coulter , Phillip McCallen and Alan Irwin to go for second best .
3 Ena Brown , Ann Jones and Tracey Beale tied for second place ; Val Walton won by a point .
4 It left The Bill and Inspector Morse trailing in 17th and 18th places with almost 17 million viewers each .
5 There are two new names in the top 10 : Chris Oldfield has risen 10 places to seventh and Michael O'Driscoll moves from 14th to eighth .
6 Ruby Wax , above , and Margaret Thatcher tied for last place
7 Clifford Geertz follows with a luminous sketch of anthropological psychology , while Richard Gregory gallops in third with his now familiar but lively inferences from illusions .
8 When Delia Sutherland did at last ring it was three weeks after their meeting and he was proved right .
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