Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven student teachers will be taking their examinations on 21st and 28th March — we wish them luck and hope to see them at next Q.T. Day . |
| 2 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 3 | They would be unable to meet them with Third Division gates , and possibly not even with the added revenue Second Division status would guarantee . |
| 4 | They would be unable to meet them with Third Division gates , and possibly not even with the added revenue Second Division status would guarantee . |
| 5 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 6 | So their best event found them in sixth position . |
| 7 | They won one , in South Paddington , and cost official Conservative candidates the seat in several more , often driving them into third place . |
| 8 | Business Week , in February 1989 , also ranked them in fourth position , with 1988 revenues of $55m. earned from 1185 searches by 118 consultants . |
| 9 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 10 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 11 | I mean I said ‘ I want something by next Thursday ’ and , of course , they were n't there or the papers were n't done . |
| 12 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 13 | She unfolded the page of blue paper and focused on the letter instead , hardly understanding it at first reading . |
| 14 | If it is readily intelligible so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and the Legal draftsman can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance … . |
| 15 | If it is readily intelligible , so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and legal draftsmen can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance . |
| 16 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 17 | Could you know anything without first presupposing that you are there to know it and that there is something there to be known ? |
| 18 | But she was also aware that no matter how she felt , her family would never allow her to relegate them to second place . |
| 19 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 20 | Manchester United pipped them in last season 's Rumbelows Cup semi-final thriller and could pay for it today . |
| 21 | Thank you everybody who said they would do them for next year . |
| 22 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 23 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 24 | Cut out the completed crossword and send it to : to reach them by first post on Saturday September 12 . |
| 25 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 26 | A good showing by Lyles put them into second place on 233 points while Reyburns , one of the fancied teams , did not live up to expectations and finished third on 210 points . |
| 27 | I , I just have er I just have to drink a lot that 's you know put me in first class and full of drink |
| 28 | Give us a ring Nottingham three four three four three four we 'll send them by first class post and we 'll put need your postcode . |
| 29 | We done them in second year . |
| 30 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |