Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And a high percentage of these companies died before their second or third birthday .
2 Ropati pounced for his 13th try of the season nine minutes later and second rower Sonny Nickle scored in the 79th minute to ensure Saints share the League lead with Wigan .
3 And only a super display from keeper David James kept the scoreline down as the Gunners romped to their third Anfield win in the last five seasons .
4 Chicks started on their third day , for instance , made fewer errors to begin with than chicks started on their first day .
5 Chicks started on their third day , for instance , made fewer errors to begin with than chicks started on their first day .
6 BRIAN CLOUGH , the newest freeman of Nottingham , saw Forest 's relegation fears eased with their first win in six games at The Dell last night , thanks to stunning goals from his son , Nigel , and Roy Keane .
7 Comments began during his first televised match .
8 He was leaning against a sun-drenched wall , yards from the city council offices where talks between Ukrainian parliamentary deputies and fleet commanders went into their third day yesterday .
9 There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush .
10 As a buoyed-up Blues strode towards their first championship in four years Martin Bayly , another southerner , joined the ranks .
11 Some 169 Washington babies died before their first birthday in the first six months of this year , bringing the capital 's infant mortality rate to 32.3 deaths for every 1,000 live births , a 50 per cent increase on 1988 .
12 The first sign was slogans daubed on the wall of a kuttub , a religious school where small children went for their first instruction in the Koran .
13 DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams .
14 DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams .
15 ‘ Your husband , ’ the nurses said to her next morning , ‘ must have bought the florist 's shop . ’
16 The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night .
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