Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 2 | And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless , the fateful twitching stilled at last . |
| 3 | Trent rode in first gear , headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed . |
| 4 | He was engaging in a war of nerves with her , Isabel realised at last , but he did n't remember . |
| 5 | The need for centralization of the royal court and parliament led at last to the choice and subsequent development of Edinburgh as Scotland 's capital city . |
| 6 | William got in first , and sat at the front . |
| 7 | The writ named the Secretary of State for the Environment as the first party for failing to provide the necessary certificates , with the Coal Board conjoined as second party . |
| 8 | As a result , at the end of just one year Louis-Napoleon moved from 50th to 24th place in a class of 94 . |
| 9 | Ellen asked at last . |
| 10 | The WRU has ruled that none of its players will be given permission to take part in the centenary tour of Natal planned for next summer . |
| 11 | Wainfleet got in first . |
| 12 | Both Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury were opposed to the marriage and rather than give up his proposed marriage , Edward abdicated on 11th . |
| 13 | RIVAS OF BLOOD STEMMED AT LAST |
| 14 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 15 | The pyjamas fastened at last , Ashley rose shakily to her feet . |
| 16 | Danes are in effect voting on a deal negotiated at last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh , which gave them opt-outs on sensitive issues such as a common currency , joint security , police controls and citizenship rules . |
| 17 | The lawyer murmured at last : ‘ Let's not be hasty . |
| 18 | Light dawned at last . |
| 19 | Rainey 's Italian team-mate Luca Cadalora won today 's event , holding off a late charge by Doohan while Schwantz settled for third after throttling back because of problems with his front tyre . |
| 20 | THE GREAT Cordoba bubble burst with the impact of an exploding bomb as Sheikh Mohammed 's heavily hyped colt trailed in third behind the 20-1 outsider , Balla Cove , in yesterday 's Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket . |
| 21 | I told him I wanted to know what labour felt like first . |
| 22 | Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) . |
| 23 | The roof fell in last night . ’ |
| 24 | A soft animal noise like gargling Dot thought at first must be Gloria 's breathing . |
| 25 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 26 | It was with a sickening sense of shock that his eyes fell at last on the heaps of bodies lying in the shadows of the dock buildings and beneath the pepper trees . |
| 27 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 28 | Faldo won at first extra hole . |
| 29 | When Delia Sutherland did at last ring it was three weeks after their meeting and he was proved right . |
| 30 | Eloise said at last , ‘ I 'm going back home and I 'll contact my lawyers . |