Example sentences of "[noun] [num ord] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Jenkins , who ousted Stephens last season only to lose his job through suspension and injury this winter , it will be a return to the big time after only one game in the past month . |
| 2 | As a left-handed player myself , I had the misfortune and inconvenience of travelling to a professional shop last year only to find they had absolutely no left-handed equipment . |
| 3 | They came close to ending the European famine last season only to falter at the end . |
| 4 | Jeff Rooker , the MP for Birmingham Perry Barr , who retired from Labour 's front bench last year partly to campaign for PR , said : ‘ A lot more people went away from this conference convinced of the merits of the argument than is shown in the vote . ’ |
| 5 | A FRAUD of staggering audacity has allegedly been perpetrated against General Motors by a Long Island dealer who , prosecutors claim , borrowed $1¾ billion ( £1 billion ) from the car company last year alone to finance vehicles ‘ that never existed ’ . |