Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bari punished Pompey in the second half when Caglianelli and Alessio struck twice in 40 seconds , with Capocchiano adding a late third . |
| 2 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
| 3 | Wigan will meet Oldham in the semi-finals of the Greenalls Lancashire Cup if they beat Swinton in the second round next Tuesday . |
| 4 | I drew Lewis in the second round and came in second behind him . |
| 5 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 6 | It was Mr Duggan 's vision that secured Eurovision in the first place for Millstreet , against the odds . |
| 7 | According to Noel Stock 's Life , Pound first met Binyon in the second week of February 1909 , and early in March he found ‘ intensely interesting ’ a lecture by Binyon on European and Oriental art , for which the lecturer had sent him a ticket . |
| 8 | The Basques went into fishing , navigation , and finally into iron ; the Caracas Company that developed Venezuela in the eighteenth century was a Basque concern , the Economic Societies were a Basque invention and it would seem that the Basques were the best-read Spaniards of the late eighteenth century . |
| 9 | ‘ And do n't forget , you were the one who contacted Mike in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've learned a lot since Belfast , ’ said Liubinskas who spent a year as assistant manager of AC Milan , favourites to win the European Cup with a victory over Marseille , the multi-talented French side which eliminated Glentoran in the first round . |
| 11 | Norsemen conquered Orkney in the ninth century when the islands became dependencies of Norway and Denmark . |
| 12 | It is reported by collectors of folk customs , like George Ewart Evans , as a joyful pagan procession that reached Britain in the eighth century , and was later Christianised and celebrated at Rogationtide , the fifth Sunday after Easter . |
| 13 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 14 | Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . |
| 15 | Haden caught Lampitt bowled Tolley in the second over of the day … |
| 16 | This happened to some extent to the Slavs who invaded Greece in the sixth century , but in the Balkans three distinct Slav groups may be identified by the tenth century — the ancestors of the present-day Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes . |
| 17 | Russian forces invested Przemysl in the third week of September 1914 , but it was only on 22 March 1915 that it fell , soon to be recaptured . |
| 18 | And thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation taking into their most serious consideration the best meanes for atteyneing the ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done ) for the vindicating and asserting their antient rights and Liberties , Declare . |
| 19 | This is a reference to Gargouille , the great French DRAGON who ransacked Rouen in the seventh century . |
| 20 | Benjamin and I left Royston in the last week of November , when the days grew dark early and the sun disappeared a few hours after noon . |
| 21 | CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy . |
| 22 | The ‘ Cats ’ stormed through the Leinster championship and then destroyed Antrim in the second half of their All Ireland semi-final . |
| 23 | Ironically , it was Watford 's first since Jason Drysdale 's penalty despatched Leeds in the third round . |