Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [num ord] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As I passed the two of them a second security guard came out of the doorway , holding a fat canvas money-bag . |
| 3 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 4 | Convincing wins The game had been close throughout with Spectrum looking good for a win after Terry Parvin had hit a basket and a free throw to give them a last minute lead by 47 points to 45 until Lockey decided to steal the limelight to give Consett a 48–47 win . |
| 5 | Crewe Alexander were also quick off the mark , Hignett giving them a tenth minute lead at home to Rotherham , and the only goal of the game puts Crewe into round five . |
| 6 | Skipper Conlan made three centuries in the summer league , earning him a first team call-up . |
| 7 | On the morning of the funeral , he gave her a last farewell kiss as she lay in her coffin . |
| 8 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |