Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 2 | Thus midday discovered me with a second scotch in my hand , a Pakki nightie round my waist , and a half-naked sex-stewardess straddling my thighs . |
| 3 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 4 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 5 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 6 | He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant . |
| 7 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 8 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 9 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 10 | The Bill was then printed with the Committee 's revisions , and considered by a Committee of the whole House on 13th July , who sent it for a Third Reading . |
| 11 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 12 | Airdrie had something of a fifth column working for them . |
| 13 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 14 | Cumbria 's Dave Swanson opened up a lead over Paul Dugdale after 5K , and stretched it into a 16-second victory . |
| 15 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |