Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took down a second mug from the dresser and poured tea for them both . |
| 2 | We climbed up again and rolled down a second time , Mom sighing and giggling again , again . |
| 3 | Urquhart gulped down a fourth glass . |
| 4 | Conrad Allen put in a first appearance on the track in the 600 metres at Crawley . |
| 5 | ‘ Child care is brilliant , ’ she added , explaining that after-school care is a matter of course with 90 per cent of women needing to bring in a second wage to survive . |
| 6 | The arrival of the railway spared off a second burst of development and the population rose rapidly , especially north of the Brook with the growth of the de Moulham Estate and New Swanage in the direction of Ulwell round the turn of the century . |
| 7 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |
| 8 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 9 | Now she is taking up a fifth career — painting . |
| 10 | Britain 's Paul Curran escaped as the race entered Liverpool but after opening up a 10-second gap , he was caught by Illingworth , Australia 's Patrick Jonker and Denmark 's Kim Marcussen as they entered the circuit with 11 miles to go . |
| 11 | In 1987 detectors in Japan and America picked up a ten-second burst of neutrinos from the collapse of a giant star . |
| 12 | A QUARRY worker who blew up a 19th century listed Methodist chapel was jailed yesterday with the property developer who hired him . |
| 13 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 14 | He was really an MD — kept up a second income from some sort of consultancy at the teaching hospital . |
| 15 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 17 | At the height of their affair they 'd made love from dusk to dawn on several occasions ; toying and teasing , stopping to bathe so they 'd have the bliss of working up a second sweat . |
| 18 | [ Before du Pre 's death in 1987 , he had quietly set up a second household in Paris with the former wife of violinist Gideon Kramer . ] |
| 19 | As a result of the rigidity of the museum 's directors , Magritte 's widow drew up a second will , and the new provisions were recognised as valid . |
| 20 | The Department of the Environment has agreed to set up a second air pollution monitoring station at Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | He picked up a second kitten , dangled one from each hand , swung them so that they hit each other . |
| 22 | At present , truckers can take a load from one country to another but face obstacles , as do airlines , in picking up a second load to take on to a third country . |
| 23 | Allied Provincial 's David Shaw said Phonelink estimated that over the coming year , it would need at least £5m to set up a second production site , to buy more data engines and to fund research and development work . |
| 24 | Leland Allen , a quantum chemist at Princeton University , believes that Pople has brought elements of standardisation , reliability , a large body of reference calculations , ready availability , and reproducibility ; and most importantly has opened up a second pathway — in addition to experimentation — to chemical truth . |
| 25 | The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over . |
| 26 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |
| 27 | Both women had been surprised when he turned up a second time . |
| 28 | Halfway along the path , I lift her up a second time . |
| 29 | She drew up a second chair and came and sat by him . |
| 30 | Ms Cann accordingly drew up a second deal , which accounted for all the different royalties ( television , merchandising and so forth ) separately . |