Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 2 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 3 | Donna gave me a last dazzling smile , then , apparently impervious to McIllvanney 's evil-tempered scorn , clicked away on her ridiculously high heels . |
| 4 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 5 | Ponies tacked up in the pony lines yawned with boredom as their owners gave them a last polish . |
| 6 | The Duty Officer made it a fifth time , glanced , not without anxiety at the brief-case , momentarily at Frau Nordern , then with relief , over her shoulder , and jerked his lumps and bumps . |
| 7 | As Ashley poured herself a second cup of rich dark coffee at a side-table , she frowned again . |
| 8 | I just ca n't see why the system gave him a second chance . |
| 9 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 10 | At special stage 20 , the valiant 24-year-old Scot gunned his accelerator as the marshals gave him a five-second countdown . |
| 11 | The left-armer denied himself a sixth by wasting a cowardly bouncer on Malcolm . |