Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 2 | Someone pointed to the fourth glass — Chinese cola — and asked what that was for . |
| 3 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 4 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 5 | A total of 39 British players started the week this year , and not a single one got past the 3rd round . |
| 6 | A new campaign team headed by John Wakeham , the Secretary of State for Energy and a close political associate , was appointed to replace what had generally been regarded as the ineffective one used in the first ballot . |
| 7 | ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside . |
| 8 | But skipper was then obliged to sail to a mark to fulfil a penalty imposed by the race officials for taking on a new sail in Hobart to replace one lost during the second leg . |
| 9 | This tends not to be so , since people do n't feel the need to keep reintroducing the point that no one listened to the first time , or the next , or the next … . |
| 10 | I think he he had a really good first half I think it like , I think that to be fair , apart from Coleman an Southgate everybody faded in the second half did n't they ? |
| 11 | Everybody missed on the first attempt except Lambert , Church and Kimberly . |
| 12 | As is usual with this event , everyone waited for the last competitors to finished , even though some took well over two hours . |
| 13 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |