Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cropnose bas made you one of her ladies ? |
| 2 | Three defences made him one of Britain 's most successful world champions ever before being dethroned by Wilfred Benitez in 1981 ( in a fight for which his purse was 400,000 dollars ) yet , curiously , he stayed at his terraced house in Stoke Newington , London . |
| 3 | His wife 's share in the partition of the vast Gloucester estates made him one of the leading territorial magnates and led to his being summoned to Parliament from November 1317 . |
| 4 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 5 | MIKE Watkinson 's pick ‘ n mix deliveries brought him ten wickets in a match for the first time yesterday as Lancashire thrashed Warwickshire by an innings and 25 runs at Edgbaston . |
| 6 | Pat Nevin 's fifth goal for Rovers earned them three crucial points at Leicester City . |
| 7 | officials lent him thirteen thousand pounds to enable him to move south and buy this house . |
| 8 | officials lent him thirteen thousand pounds to enable him to move south and buy this house . |
| 9 | The Rejects made it 3–1 from the spot after the teams had been deadlocked at 2–2 even with extra-time . |
| 10 | Officers showed us two-and-a-half thousand Russian icons which they seized in two swoops on illegal exporters . |
| 11 | Perhaps four or five minutes , though it certainly seemed more ; Moxie guessed ten minutes , and Gildas later told her that Ludens told him fifteen minutes . |
| 12 | ‘ A year ago the Wallabies crushed us 38–3 in Cardiff and that was also our biggest home defeat by anybody . ’ |
| 13 | The Royal College of Surgeons offered him 60 guineas for it , but he sold it to John Gamgee in November 1860 for 100 guineas . |
| 14 | Lori sent him one of her most seductive smiles that made Paige long to warn her to be careful . |
| 15 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 16 | Doctors gave him six months to live if he did n't quit drinking . |
| 17 | The doctors gave him two years to live . |
| 18 | When he was aged eleven , doctors gave him ten years to live . |
| 19 | Ladies won it 3-2 , with Caroline Howard , Pauline Robertson and captain Diane Thorburn getting the goals that mattered . |
| 20 | The media was not interested : the New York Times gave it two paragraphs ; Life and Look magazines turned down the excellent investigative article by Washington freelance journalist Seymour Hersh , and the big news organisations failed to follow up tips about the case . |
| 21 | Hot Shot 's monthly releases gave you 45 minutes of video excerpts of the latest computer games for only £5 . |
| 22 | A series of four wins gave them 12 more points at the most important time to guarantee not only the victory but a bonus for top scoring over the two legs of the match . |
| 23 | Doshi , whose 33 tests brought him 114 wickets , including five-wicket hauls in an innings on six occasions , said : ‘ The great thing about Tufnell is that he is willing to experiment . |
| 24 | Final results gave him 50.3 per cent of the vote to the communist-backed Mr Vassiliou 's 49.7 per cent — a majority of about 2,000 votes . |
| 25 | The bookies made him 4-1 to win the Masters . |
| 26 | Three different horses won it four years running . |
| 27 | Oh the peedie ones did it four or five or six acre you cut the and bag it the barley to them put it in the er the bagger on the machine you see . |
| 28 | Charged with obscenity the magistrates gave them six months hard labour each . |
| 29 | The journey of about 50 miles took him three days . |
| 30 | We recruited a team of twenty-five young executives whose firms or colleagues gave them three weeks paid leave for the election campaign . |