Example sentences of "[verb] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teammate Rob McElnea is on course to secure second place in the Super Cup points at Mallory Park in two weeks time after fourth and fifth places today . |
| 2 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 3 | On the Hebridena crag of Strone Ulladale , the North Wales based team of Noel Craine and Bob Drury made the long awaited second ascent of The Scoop . |
| 4 | Another recent open winner , Harry Williams ' Derby hope Pond Pavarotti , whose victory at Brough Park last week helped Sunderland win second place in the inter-track competition , setting a new sectional record of 3.71 seconds , takes on the well known Yorkshire-based open racer Mandys Supreme , which is trained by the unattached Derek Tidswell . |
| 5 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 6 | Brakeman for Great Britain Two , Edd helped the team to a better than expected thirteenth place after the first two of the four runs . |
| 7 | Alan , who learnt the art of trial biking at his family home in the hilly countryside of Morar , now holds fifth position in the Scottish Trial Championship . |
| 8 | The last stretch is down a narrow lane bordered by woods and lined with horse boxes , cars and spectators , the latter all striving to catch first sight of the leading riders coming at full gallop . |
| 9 | He had won first prize at the eisteddfod as a boy soprano . |
| 10 | B. Y. Yeong of ICM Chemical in Malaysia has won first prize in the utility innovation category at last year 's Malaysian Invention and Design Society exhibition . |
| 11 | LITTLE Philip Carter ripped open the letter telling him he had won first prize in the Mirror 's WWF wrestling competition … and burst into tears . |
| 12 | In the short time we have been presenting Craft and Design in Heriot 's we have already established a reputation for outstanding work and last Session one of our pupils won first prize in the Edinburgh and District Rotary Club Design Competition . |
| 13 | He was articled to his brother , Richard Phené Spiers , in 1866 , when he also joined the Architectural Association , later gaining first prize in the class of design . |
| 14 | The convention is that the cross-cousin who meets the groom 's party at the gate should challenge the groom saying that he , the gatekeeper , has first claim to the girl . |
| 15 | We and customs did n't know much at all till you phoned last night with the stories about the lorries and the baggage handlers at Gatwick . ’ |
| 16 | Britain has won third place in the arms-sales league table — behind the US and the Soviet Union — partly because the US Zionist lobby has prevented many sales to Arab states from Washington , which has forced the Arabs to go elsewhere . |
| 17 | The jump follows a big increase in bad debts reported last week by the private banking operations of Lloyds Bank . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc implementation of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today : the paper quoted Sun president Scott McNealy as saying ‘ NT needs to be ported to Sparc — if they [ Microsoft ] do n't do it , they are missing the boat ’ ; despite the denials , observers hint darkly that some sort of effort involving Sparc and Microsoft is under way , and will come to the surface over the next few months . |
| 19 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc port of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today . |
| 20 | These are located next door to the Ruston test bed and bring our total investment in premises and equipment for LTS to £1.5 million . |
| 21 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
| 22 | Louise Müller 's name occupied third place in the playbills . |
| 23 | Sport and Oxford United 's biggest crowd in three years of just under ten thousand packed into the Manor Ground last night for the FA cup tie with Sunderland . |
| 24 | For this reason additional funds were voted last year for the city . |
| 25 | SPIRALLING electricity prices were blamed last night for the loss of another 100 North West jobs . |
| 26 | Alirio Parra , OPEC 's president who toured member states in an effort to get support for production cuts ahead of the Vienna meeting , declined to comment last night on the progress at the talks . |
| 27 | An example of radio-frequency interference or RFI — which is how the phenomenon is termed in industrial circles — occurred last year at the disabled nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania . |
| 28 | The accident occurred last night in the Toxteth district of Liverpool as he and his friends played football . |
| 29 | Then there was the Indian woman reported last year in the New England Journal of Medicine ( vol 306 , p 1056 ) who had a craving for paper . |
| 30 | Their findings , reported last year in the British Medical Journal , highlighted poor sanitary conditions in some inner London schools . |