Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a last minute decision to go to this game . |
| 2 | Seeing there are three of you , it would make sense if I made a fourth and helped to leg . ’ |
| 3 | I produced a first version of that track in a week and they had it on the TV the next night ! |
| 4 | There was a spring in my step and when Craig Brewster played a nice through ball into the box , my old legs managed to carry me there and I got a second goal that I did n't expect . ’ |
| 5 | My application to do research at Cambridge was accepted , provided I got a first , but to my annoyance my supervisor was not Hoyle but a man called Denis Sciama , of whom I had not heard . |
| 6 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 7 | I want a second opinion ! |
| 8 | I want a second opinion . |
| 9 | So I want a third of their their costs . |
| 10 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
| 11 | Through the dingy gloom of this motionless train , I catch a first glimpse of my fellow travellers . |
| 12 | Then I played a second lad and beat him too . |
| 13 | The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry . |
| 14 | Months later , when the war was over , I received a third , with the single word saluti written on it . |
| 15 | … and when I add a third category called Years , Improv automatically generates extra cells , complete with relevant formulae |
| 16 | I declined a third scone but accepted a ginger biscuit . |
| 17 | I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon . |
| 18 | It 's interesting , actually , since I teach a first year class of biologists , where we do have rather more girls than boys , that erm as a class it works very well , possibly better than some of our own chemistry classes where there are fewer girls , and I do n't know whether this is because of the mix or not . |
| 19 | ‘ I spent a last two days with my parents and Lily . |
| 20 | Desperate now , I pulled a third time , and a third time the boots slipped . |
| 21 | O is ‘ Oh dear , can I have a second opinion ? ’ |
| 22 | Dad can I have a third tea ? |
| 23 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 24 | The pike is perhaps in a similar difficulty as a human who is trying to hit a moving tennis ball when someone throws a second ball across his visual field ; it makes it more difficult to hit the ball . |
| 25 | I meant a fifteenth of the following |
| 26 | Yes , I see why I represented a last hope , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Wish I knew a tenth as much . ’ |
| 28 | Then I saw a second light beside the first . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ As we approached the town we swerved to avoid a mine in the road , then I saw a second mine three feet in front of us . |
| 30 | ‘ When I win a first set like that , I panic . ’ |