Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting broke out in one of the markets , two people were stabbed and a third sprained his ankle when a stall of onions collapsed . |
| 2 | The font supplier provides one font for the screen so that the user will be able to see the type as it will appear and a second font for the printer . |
| 3 | Encarnación Valdivia and another leader of the re-contras ( rearmed ex-contras ) were seriously injured and a third leader , Leonel Benavides , was killed in an ambush by re-compas ( rearmed ex-Sandinistas ) in northern Nicaragua , it was reported on Jan. 9 . |
| 4 | Police said two city sports stadiums used to house detainees over the past few days were filled and a third had to be used . |
| 5 | This first reactor was demolished and a second one begun , even larger than the first , and built in a hole in the ground — the same scale of construction as a U-boat shelter . |
| 6 | The pamphlet was widely acclaimed and a second edition produced . |
| 7 | Usually , it is positioned so that it can be operated by the thumb , and normally one press is needed to start recording and a second press to stop . |
| 8 | Initially , just two of the canoeists capsized but a third also got into difficulties after he and two colleagues attempted to rescue their friends . |
| 9 | Initially just two of the canoeists capsized but a third also got into difficulties after he and two colleagues attempted a rescue . |
| 10 | The section concerning treatment requiring both consent and a second opinion refers primarily to psycho-surgery and hormone implantations ; that concerning treatment requiring either consent or a second opinion refers primarily to electro-convulsive therapy and to the use of medication after three months regular administration . |
| 11 | Carl Haywood , Angus Spence and Alexander Woods appeared at Teesside Crown Court following one night in Darlington last June during which two men were assaulted and a third had his car badly damaged . |
| 12 | By mid-June 1990 a total of 14 parties had been authorized and a 15th had requested recognition following the decision of the PDCI on May 3 , 1990 , to allow opposition parties to operate [ see p. 37445 ] . |
| 13 | One officer was forced to resign , another had wages cut and a third was fined . |
| 14 | The State of the Prisons went through four editions as Howard 's travels and experience grew and a second book , An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe , reflected his later interest in military hospitals , lazarettos for the sick , and ways of combating the plague . |
| 15 | Three people died and a fourth was critically injured in a two car crash in Oxfordshire last night . |
| 16 | At higher drug/DNA ratios the proportion of the decay represented by the longest species decreased and a third intermediate component was evident . |
| 17 | Throughout the great early Irish epic tale Táin Bó Cuailnge there are times when one of the heroes , King Conchubar , spends a third of his day feasting , a third watching the young warriors wrestle and a third drinking coirm until he falls asleep . |
| 18 | Before any cash was received from the sheep tax it was repealed and a fourth year of the property tax substituted in its place . |
| 19 | Two pupils were released but a third was detained . |