Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten days and more of women 's films is a good way of recharging one 's batteries , and women thinking of going to next year 's Festival might like to know that the organisers will arrange accommodation with local families for 50F a night ( approx £5 . ) |
| 2 | Nigel Worthington appears to have got over the disappointment of losing in last week 's FA Cup final replay to Arsenal and will play what is believed to be his 67th game of the season tomorrow . |
| 3 | Why , I bet you never had the slightest intention of following through last night , did you ? |
| 4 | And The Name Book has provided a happy half hour of browsing through first names . |
| 5 | Victory tomorrow would offer United compensation for losing in last season 's final to Sheffield Wednesday and would fill the last gap in the Old Trafford honours board . |
| 6 | He lingered to shine his lamp at the half-finished water colour in the window before turning at last into the alleyway leading to the churchyard . |
| 7 | She did a lot of work in sitting at first , gaining the feeling of balancing onto her left side , and she was taught how to move her spine more normally . |
| 8 | SHILDON Strollers retained their leadership of the Durham Second Division at a canter when a weakened Wingate failed to offer any real threat despite the incentive of moving into third place with a win that would have toppled the home team from the No 1 spot . |
| 9 | However , in many authorities , especially the larger ones , the process of thinking about next year 's budget has begun months before . |
| 10 | The GCC did not confine its efforts to end this unwelcome war to working through third parties like the ICO or the UN . |
| 11 | A writ can still be served on a limited company by sending it by first class post to the registered office , but following the Practice Direction ( QBD ) ( Service of Documents : First and Second Class Mail ) ( 1985 ) 8 March [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 489 the presumption will be of service on the second working day after posting by first class post or the fourth working day after posting by second class post . |
| 12 | A writ can still be served on a limited company by sending it by first class post to the registered office , but following the Practice Direction ( QBD ) ( Service of Documents : First and Second Class Mail ) ( 1985 ) 8 March [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 489 the presumption will be of service on the second working day after posting by first class post or the fourth working day after posting by second class post . |
| 13 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 14 | The restoration and re-furbishing were completed in time for a great service of re-hallowing on 27th July . |
| 15 | It was held that the defendant was guilty , since in raising their hands the members of the audience were engaging in competitive bidding — namely in competing against one another for the chance of getting in first by raising a hand before anyone else or for the chance of attracting the defendant 's favour in selecting the lucky buyer . |
| 16 | The Sheffield United winger , Alan Roberts , is on the verge of moving to Fourth Division Lincoln City if the clubs can agree on a fee . |
| 17 | In Pakistan , agreement has been reached on the sales and pricing for Kadanwari gas and development in proceeding with first production scheduled for 1995 . |
| 18 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 19 | Later , in my cabin , I treated myself to a long , languorous Omnipure sauna before turning at last to the task of choosing my outfit for the meeting with the Emissary . |
| 20 | i A strict policy on smoking in sixth form colleges and colleges of further education is the best way to deter young people from taking up smoking , according to the British Medical Association . |
| 21 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |
| 22 | CUMBERNAULD have been banned by the Scottish Rugby Union from playing until next season after a match against Earlston earlier this month was abandoned by the referee , writes George Barton . |
| 23 | CUMBERNAULD have been banned by the Scottish Rugby Union from playing until next season after a match against Earlston earlier this month was abandoned by the referee . |
| 24 | Alan Hinson , of the Walkers , made a welcome return to competition by strolling in 26th ( 108.42 ) . |
| 25 | And there was n't a lot of getting in first before the newsworthy |
| 26 | Linford , who became an MBE in 1990 , considered quitting athletics after flopping in last year 's World Championships . |
| 27 | Now he could be in the unfamiliar position of trailing in last … in the race among new MPs to speak in the House . |
| 28 | The idea of trying to second guess those advisers is wrong . |
| 29 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 30 | A number of schools have now indicated their interest in piloting from next session , and a meeting has been arranged between the headteachers of these schools , the Regional education department , and SCOTVEC . |