Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 2 | ‘ I just do n't fancy tackling her a third time . ’ |
| 3 | CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year . |
| 4 | He tells them that Claudia has written them a last message . |
| 5 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
| 6 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 7 | Elizabeth answered that she particularly did not want anything to remain that might hurt any living person among her friends — and so with one blow.she destroyed the ‘ flat ’ characters , who could have given her a second literary fame . |
| 8 | His early acquaintance with Pub ] ius Rutilius Rufus at the school of Panaetius must have given him a first taste of Roman optimates : later he had Pompey and Cicero among his admirers . |
| 9 | It was a joke really , because if she was one of the male officers then she would not have given it a second thought . |
| 10 | She would have said it a third , even a fourth time , but he sealed her mouth with his own , possessing its sweetness with a plunderer 's purpose . |
| 11 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 12 | Whether she had or not , he felt compelled to ask her a last question , even if it did annoy or depress her . |
| 13 | He did n't have to tell me a second time . |
| 14 | Luckily she appeared so insignificant with all the bags that no one bothered to give her a second glance . |
| 15 | That means , they 've raised a third , we 've given them a third , and they got a third to raise . |
| 16 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 17 | Police revealed yesterday that Joanna had told them a second man was involved in her disappearance . |
| 18 | He had kissed her a second time . |
| 19 | And now I 've lost him a second time , and this time for ever ! |
| 20 | If undemanding schooling methods , supplemented by hours in front of cretinous , discontinuous TV programmes , have given them a thirty-second attention span , poor linguistic skills , therefore poor conceptualising and critical powers , and a craving for instant entertainment , then it will not matter what cultural policy a government adopts . |
| 21 | Last but not least Surrey have given us a second fine Chairman in Pauline Kenward . |
| 22 | And in fact you 're probably going to be invited because everybody seems to want to give me an eightieth birthday party . |
| 23 | Her tutors at University College have allowed her a third attempt next year but have insisted she take a year out . |