Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 3 | In the meantime , the injured driver and GAB workers were attended to by a first aider by GAB and then sent to hospital by ambulance . |
| 4 | During an earlier effort the whales — which have been trapped within Scapa Flow for almost five weeks — had been shepherded to within a third of a mile of the entrance , but dived again and stayed at Scapa Flow until the later shepherding effort succeeded . |
| 5 | For example , the International Commission of Jurists concluded in its report on the status of the Aaland Islands that the Convention of 1856 which had demilitarised the islands remained effective and could be relied upon by a third party , Sweden . |
| 6 | In total , monks and nuns disposed of between a sixth and a seventh of all Domesday landed value . |
| 7 | Any calls for help in the estuary will have to be dealt with by a second boat from Chepstow , until repairs to the Sharpness boat are complete . |
| 8 | The resulting copy , being at one remove from the original , is referred to as a second generation tape , and it will be slightly lower in quality than the original . |
| 9 | In these languages , the fourth person refers to ‘ a person or thing distinct from one already referred to by a third person form ’ . |
| 10 | In February the editor made four new criticisms on technical matters , which we dealt with in a third revision . |
| 11 | They are conceived of as a last resort when all else fails , including a mandatory three-day cooling-off period and a further five days while a ‘ conciliation commission ’ will attempt to produce agreement between the parties . |
| 12 | However , the term general can be conceived of in a third way , in terms of the all-round development of the individual . |
| 13 | In the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century re-exporting still accounted for between a fifth and a quarter of total exports . |