Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Cheltenham man has since been charged with murder and wounding a second student . |
| 2 | His war service after Cambridge , where he was an exhibitioner at Gonville and Caius College and gained a first in English , pointed the way to his future career . |
| 3 | Cambridgeshire has adopted in the Chevely area a federal solution by technically ‘ closing ’ ( say ) three schools and enlarging a fourth to operate as a single administrative unit for the four school populations on their own sites . |
| 4 | Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same . |
| 5 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 6 | As long as the Bill goes through Committee and receives a Third Reading , the King 's Cross project will go ahead regardless of the timing of the link between the channel tunnel and London . |
| 7 | Rose , giving evidence , said Sweeney had been refused a drink at three pubs and left a fourth . |
| 8 | The Cheltenham company must now decide whether to send Mark Driscoll back to Spain for more strawberries and risk a second confrontation with French growers . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the society said : ‘ To receive a Fellowship is a rare honour and to receive a second Fellowship is a rare achievement . ’ |
| 10 | The graft had induced the host tissues adjacent to it to completely change their fate and form a second embryo in relation to the graft , and for this reason it was called the organizer . |
| 11 | The company , 86 p.c. -owned by family interests of chairman Garry Weston , also chairman of Sunblest baking giant Associated British Foods , is changing its year-end to July and paying a second interim dividend of 86p , compared with last year 's final of 84p . |
| 12 | Thanks to the assistance of the statistics department of Avon and Somerset Police , it was possible to answer this question and provide a fifth and final indicator of success . |
| 13 | Glentoran 's Neil Candlish , looking like his old explosive self , hit two in eight minutes and made a third for Damien Kelly with a superb cross , as the Glens swept into a three goal interval lead . |
| 14 | He equalised after 67 minutes and hit a last minute winner . |
| 15 | Trailing overnight leader Sainz by 25 seconds at the start of the day , the British champion steadily whittled away the deficit and opened a 12-second lead on the penultimate stage , before easing up and finishing two seconds ahead of the Spaniard . |
| 16 | The most appealing strategy is integration or collaboration , by which groups in conflict modify their views and seek a third alternative . |
| 17 | ‘ Mind you ’ Maxim said ‘ I could go back to her cottage and have a second snoop taking my time . |
| 18 | The view was that people ordered their affairs on the basis of their contractual liability and to allow a third party to sue in tort would upset this arrangement . |
| 19 | But Derby kept up their hundred percent home record and added a third goal with thunderous free kick . |
| 20 | A Mr Ashton had given evidence to the Inquiry and quoted a third party , who appeared to criticise its works . |
| 21 | Mr Walsh 's murder came just 11 hours after the UFF shot dead four Catholics and injured a fifth man as they arrived to carry out building work on houses in Castlerock . |
| 22 | The old man dipped his nose and took a first careful sip . |
| 23 | An owl few over the ford , banked into a beechwood and gave a last hollow call , which was lost in the dawn 's loud chorus that seemed to presage a bright hot summer 's day in this rich and placid countryside . |
| 24 | Betts , who has appeared jaded after Great Britain 's summer tour Down Under , roared back to top form , helping with two tries and grabbing a third as Wigan confirmed their favouritism for a record fourth consecutive title . |
| 25 | At Oxford he lost his faith but gained a first at Balliol , in Law . |
| 26 | Normally the Inter Counties fixture is staged the week after the county championships and provides a second chance for young athletes to achieve qualifying standards for next month 's English Schools Championships . |
| 27 | RADICAL proposals to cut the Premier League to 18 teams and introduce a Second Division could be put to the vote today . |
| 28 | In the case of human beings of course you have to notice that men seem to have an advantage because as I think I mention i in the lectures , it 's perfectly possible , you see this happening in our own society which is supposed to be monogamous , perfectly possible for a man to get married , raise a family and then in his forties to desert his wife and raise a second family . |
| 29 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 30 | East won with the king and returned a second club to dummy 's king , with South discarding a second diamond from hand . |