Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 2 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 3 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 4 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 5 | well you got them four for ninety nine and you enjoyed them did n't you ? |
| 6 | Marie read me one of her poems the other day . |
| 7 | Just over three years ago England defeated them 2-0 at Wembley , but Yugoslavia might have drawn or even won that game had they taken their chances . |
| 8 | Great Britain went 2–1 up in the four-match Test series against the United States when they defeated them 8–3 at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Saturday . |
| 9 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 10 | So I drew them one by one — — Skippetty Rabbit , his wife Gillian , Brownie the Bear , Prowler the Wolf , Fido the Pup , Sly Fox , Piney Cone the Pine Marten , Longtail and Short Tail the Mice , and Bill Mouse with his wife Sue . |
| 11 | One explosion from Bull and some serious sniping by Lineker could do the trick , but Yugoslavia have only lost twice in 20 matches since England routed them 4-1 in Belgrade in the European Championship two years ago and that wound was deep . |
| 12 | Town beat them 3-1 at the County Ground in October . |
| 13 | When Liverpool beat them 7-1 in a pre-season friendly a few months ago I think a few people thought the Prenton bubble had burst . |
| 14 | He beat me 3–0 in a five-frame match , 2–0 when we doubled the money and then we played a final frame for double-your-money again and when he reached the yellow he had already won the match . |
| 15 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 16 | I helped you two by giving you two thousand of mine . |
| 17 | RONNIE O'Sullivan was beaten for the first time in 25 snooker matches last night — Dave Finbow thrashed him 5-0 in the Dubai Classic . |
| 18 | Jamie ran up a quadruple-bogey 8 of which cost him thousands of pounds . |
| 19 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 20 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 21 | I had four attacks altogether , the most recent only a few weeks ago after I had watched Everton beat us 3-0 at Old Trafford . |
| 22 | ‘ Darlington beat us 4–0 in the League at Feethams earlier in the season . |
| 23 | Oh I du n no you 'll have to talk to Ian , she said I 've been working Les done , er Les , Les told me eleven till three , it was half past eleven till three and er , so Bev was alright |
| 24 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |
| 25 | The only team to hold off the accounts onslaught seems to be the well-respected Streatham team who drubbed them 5:1 before Christmas , though accounts admittedly had an under par team . |
| 26 | Cor they look I told you one of them did n't have much in ! |
| 27 | A security man working at the centre said the injured man told him one of the gunmen put a sub-machine gun to his head , but that it had failed to go off . |
| 28 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 29 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 30 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |