Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bought my Paradise Lost in a second hand book and I ga , shop , and I gave it to Marion . |
| 2 | The ‘ central zone ’ went the same way during March , its collapse preceded by a second ‘ civil war within the Civil War ’ : a tragicomic affair in which ‘ rebels ’ under Colonel Casado , anxious to negotiate a surrender , engineered a coup and then clashed with Communists eager to fight to the last . |
| 3 | He said about four million people would have their tax cut by a fifth . |
| 4 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |
| 5 | This was Mayall 's first Hollywood film and he should n't hold his breath waiting for a second chance . |
| 6 | It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives . |