Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [num ord] [num] " in BNC.

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1 It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green .
2 This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites .
3 Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United .
4 On a day that much expensive talent short-changed a dull derby scarred by offside , Strachan made the first two for Leeds and earned an ‘ assist ’ for the third .
5 The rising hope of English squash , Cassie Jackman , also made the last eight , but dropped the first game before asserting herself against unseeded Linda Charman , who is a vastly improved player this season .
6 She read the first two pages and felt a blush rise from her palpitating bosom up her neck to suffuse her face .
7 Yet the appeal of crusading was , if anything , even stronger to those aristocratic houses just below the level of the princely : it was , after all , the house of Boulogne which produced the first two rulers of Jerusalem .
8 Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar .
9 ‘ We got the first two !
10 Les Ferdinand got the first 2 .
11 Now I , I 've rung the Claremont and they 've said , oh yes , it 's the conference erm you know amount and we 're very , appar we were , I was very lucky cos we got the last three rooms .
12 He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections .
13 He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat .
14 Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle .
15 Martin Pipe enlisted the help of fellow trainer Michael Dickinson , now based in the US but who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again , who hit form on the day it mattered to win the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle .
16 Also during July , Horse and Hound distributed a questionnaire in 20,000 copies of the magazine , and analysed the first 1,017 to be returned .
17 Only a late-order rally through the efforts of Godfrey Furse and skipper Graham Watts helped the last three wickets add 41 runs .
18 As the Owls entered the last 25 minutes , they needed just one goal to square the tie — and they looked perfectly capable of getting it .
19 ‘ After all we are not just one people , we are also one city , ’ said one West Berliner , who described the last 24 hours as ‘ simply unbelievable ’ .
20 I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday .
21 Chris Broad looked set for a good knock as he crashed the first four of the day … but Gloucestershire then got themselves into trouble against the bowling of Gordon Harris …
22 In particular , we fixed the last four of those fuel tankers that have been awaiting gearbox spares .
23 When DJS ( D. J. Smith ) spent a whole night walking with a probationer who could find nothing at ail to do , the probationer eventually waited on a main road where there was virtually no traffic and stopped the first two cars that came by .
24 Just before he reached it , I used the last two shots on my film , though at that distance I did n't think I 'd pick up much .
25 He shouted the last two words .
26 Those who expected the election to lead to a radical change in domestic policy certainly found the first two years of the Kennedy era disappointing .
27 See , we found the last three of the ten dogs of that killer pack the sect kept .
28 ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said .
29 Hefting a large , heavy pair of cable-cutters that had lain on a shelf , she let the first two go by .
30 We reviewed the first 14 consecutive yellow cards reported to the Spanish drug surveillance system ; only four of the patients could be regarded as having Guillain-Barré syndrome .
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