Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led for most of the first 60 laps but was forced to make a tyre change . |
| 2 | An internal inquiry has been carried out by Ealing social services , in whose area Christopher lived for most of the last weeks of his life , but no serious professional errors were found . |
| 3 | Martyn moved past 50 for the third successive innings and by the close had reached 84 off 153 balls . |
| 4 | Tokyo rose above 21,000 for the first time since March last year , but it finished the week only 0.1% up . |
| 5 | Levels of pesticide and chemical residues in drinking water in England and Wales rose in 1992 for the second year in succession , according to the Drinking Water Inspectorate , although overall water quality remained the same , with 98.7 per cent of the 3.75 million tests complying with national and EC standards . |
| 6 | In 1950 there were 385,000 divorces in the United States compared with 264,000 in the last pre-war year , 1940 . |
| 7 | Harry played in eight of the last nine Palace Football League matches of season 1921–22 and scored two goals for us in the last eight minutes on his debut to help Palace defeat Bury 4–1 at The Nest on 25 March , but all these appearances were in the inside or centre-forward positions . |
| 8 | The electric telegraph seemed to those of the mid-nineteenth century to be one of the most amazing feats of science-reasonably enough , if one remembers the long and uncertain times letters took in days of sail . |
| 9 | The crunch came on one of the last of the old-style weekends at Althorp . |
| 10 | The crisis came at 5-5 in the second game , by which time Horner had begun to dig in . |
| 11 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | The concentration and output of SCFA in faeces was low on the first day of illness , but returned towards normal by the fifth day ( Table I ) . |
| 13 | Their rhythm was temporarily upset when Boone and Prenn changed sides after losing the first three games and Boone served from 8–8 in the fourth game to 5–0 in the fifth . |
| 14 | ROD LATHAM was run out for 119 as New Zealand finished on 325–3 after the second day of their rain-affected First Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo . |
| 15 | Chasing a target of 182 off 45 overs , New Zealand finished on 164–7 in the first of two one-day warm-up games before the first Test which starts in Colombo on Friday . |
| 16 | The beachfront villa in Beirut where Coleman lived in 1985 during the first DIA undercover assignment . |
| 17 | In Evangelical circles , this confident explanation of the inscrutable working of providence persisted throughout most of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |
| 19 | Bart Czirr and Gary Jensen worked on this for the next several months in between teaching duties as the new university year had now begun . |
| 20 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 21 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
| 22 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 23 | Interest rates fell before each of the last two general elections , only to rise again afterwards . |
| 24 | In fact , the average household size remained between four and five throughout this period and only fell to three during the twentieth century ( Laslett , 1972b ; Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 25 | Use of animals in experiments in the UK increased in 1991 for the first time in 15 years . |
| 26 | For Arabic names , and other names with prefixes , it was found that there were inconsistencies in indexing : Al-Haddad appeared correctly in one instance , and on another occasion as Haddad ; El-Batroukh appeared in full in the first reference , then as Batroukh , and also as Batrouk . |
| 27 | For Arabic names , and other names with prefixes , it was found that there were inconsistencies in indexing : Al-Haddad appeared as Al-Haddad , and on another occasion as Haddad ; El-Batroukh appeared in full in the first reference , then as Batroukh , and also as Batrouk . |
| 28 | Gooch and Atherton put on 168 in the first innings |
| 29 | Adrian Griffith ( 34 ) and David Wright ( 26 ) put on 45 for the first wicket , before Barry Metcalf ( 23 not out ) and Steve Wundke ( 33 not out ) saw Chester home . |
| 30 | John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus . |