Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combative veteran gave his side the lead on the hour , and then helped them to a flattering 3-0 win . |
| 2 | Sampras admitted he felt powerless in the face of Ivanisevic 's 13-ace onslaught which consigned him to a 7–6 6–2 defeat . |
| 3 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 4 | He guided them to a respectable 8-8 record last season , but with a cluster of outstanding players on the club 's roster there was a heavy weight of expectation for the campaign which began four weeks ago — notably from Davis himself . |
| 5 | The recorder Nicholas Jarman jailed him for a further 3 and a half years for what he described as a terrible act with the most appalling consequences . |
| 6 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 7 | We were faced , as you reminded me with a projected twenty-four million pound shortfall . |
| 8 | She marched him in an exact 15 metre circle . |
| 9 | McFarlane won it in an extraordinary 10.08 seconds , gale assisted . |
| 10 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
| 11 | The real swing to Labour was 8.45 per cent , but the newspapers and television had it as a mere 7.5 per cent . |