Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffin , from the Mount Tallant club , still had problems with his vision in the contest though he led 8–6 going into the third round which saw Gornei put up a storming last stand to bring the fighters level . |
| 2 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 3 | THE organisers of the Harp Masters men 's hockey tournament exhaled a sigh of relief last night when the only visiting team — Glasgow Western — scraped into the quarter-final stage with a hard fought 2-1 win over section two side Collegians at Blaris . |
| 4 | ROYAL Navy captain Fabian Malbon , 46 , led 300 crew up the 1,400ft-high rock of Gibraltar yesterday to raise money for a cancer appeal . |
| 5 | I was growing , but I 'm now , I never got much higher than about five foot one and I weighed eight stone for a many years . |
| 6 | Part of this study involved 2 number of case-studies of Access courses , and within these data was gathered on the performance of former Access students in higher education . |
| 7 | Exports rose 6.8 p.c. to a high of $37.8 billion , while imports fell modestly . |
| 8 | Publishing arm profits rose 31 p.c. to £3½m . |
| 9 | By contrast , contract catering profits rose 18 p.c. to £47m . |
| 10 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 11 | Total cash outlays last year rose 11 p.c. to £213 billion , including £19.3 billion in March . |
| 12 | The New York Times literary section listed I Libertine among forthcoming publications . |
| 13 | John Cheese , director of Barclays personal sector marketing , said : ‘ We found 36 p.c. of customers interviewed said they had to wait between five and 10 minutes to be served . |
| 14 | Trading in European shares rose 3 p.c. to £16.4 billion . |
| 15 | The madrigalist John Wilbye [ q.v. ] dedicated one set of published madrigals to Arabella Stuart [ q.v. ] and the other to Sir Charles Cavendish , the earl 's younger brother , who was himself connected by marriage to the Kytsons , Wilbye 's patrons at Hengrave Hall . |
| 16 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |
| 17 | Rental income rose 16 p.c. to £11.3m , but the interest bill , after capitalising £860,000 against £5½m , rose as a result of the completion of the group 's remaining developments . |
| 18 | Gino 's chipper in Duke Street , near where she normally boarded her tram after work , charged one penny for a bag of crispy batter , and if you were lucky , there might be a nice piece of fish , or a stray lump of white pudding hiding among the golden , greasy flakes . |
| 19 | Cash only contributed one song to the second Highwaymen album , Highwayman 2 , a number called Songs that Make a Difference . |
| 20 | Not least of these is the achievement of a 53 year old , who resembled nothing so much ( yaks apart ) as the reincarnation of General Bruce and weighed 16 stone at the outset of the expedition , in getting to that height . |
| 21 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 22 | Tim tried one night of Soho strip clubs , but the smell of smoke and the avid faces of the watchers who all seemed much older than himself depressed him , and he left without trying any of phone numbers which annoyed the clerk . |
| 23 | I mean if we tried one bag of that for a fiver . |
| 24 | They want the flightpath moved one mile to the west . |
| 25 | Nathan moved one shoulder in a semi-shrug . |
| 26 | Then he subsequently moved one person from the ground floor onto the first floor , which meant that he did require a fire certificate . |
| 27 | In the growing queue for the buffet on the Cheshire Cheese , the passengers moved one place nearer the long-awaited ham and tomato sandwich in stony silence . |
| 28 | Philip cast one glance at him , observed the signs , and thought better of making any demands on him . |
| 29 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 30 | A tear fell and splashed uselessly on to the pillow , and she clumsily drew one arm over her eyes . |