Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 32 | The club slipped into the Fourth the season after he left and were almost relegated from the Football League . |
| 33 | Despite the complaints of Rousseau and many others , this practice continued into the 19th century . |
| 34 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 35 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 36 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 37 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 38 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 39 | Fighting continued into a second day , with the presidential palace again coming under fire from the air and from snipers , despite presidential assurances to the country that the situation was under control . |
| 40 | As sporadic fighting continued through the next day , many Nez Perce warriors became keen to withdraw . |
| 41 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 42 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 43 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 44 | The place is identified in the town as the site of a castle of which no trace remained by the eighteenth century [ Eland , 1 , 92 ] . |
| 45 | The jeep careered between the 17th green and the now empty stand , then tackled the undulating terrain beyond , plunging into hollows , climbing steep sandy slopes with all four wheels grabbing for grip . |
| 46 | The land was sold to the second to fourth defendants on 21 July 1988 , and by order dated 16 December 1988 they were added as defendants and the action stayed against the first defendants . |
| 47 | The winner came in the 64th minute thanks to a combination of fine attacking play from Jason Soloman and inept defending by Boro . |
| 48 | The chance for a local winner came in the second race , the Arkle Challenge Trophy . |
| 49 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
| 50 | This change came with the eighth in the Val Fajr series , launched in the south on 9 February in commemoration of the period seven years earlier when the Shah left and Khomeini returned from his sojourn in France . |
| 51 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 52 | The hammer blow came in the 62nd minute . |
| 53 | The Nationalist denouement came in the third week of April , and the Republican at the beginning of May , in a week of violent confrontation between communists and anarchists in Barcelona . |
| 54 | The only knockdown of the fight came in the 11th round when the champion floored Close with a short , right upper cut . |
| 55 | The sun rose on the sixth day . |
| 56 | the sun rose on the last of Alamein . |
| 57 | But perceptions that the Alliance was running second in the polls collapsed in the second week ; and voters ' assessment of Alliance chances of winning a majority or even holding the balance of power dropped sharply in the third week ; while television 's sharp switch to focus on the two-Party Labour versus Conservative battle occurred in the fourth week . |
| 58 | Wrigley and Schofield have shown that between 1650–99 and 1800–49 the age at first marriage for women fell by 3·1 years ; most of the fall occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and it was most apparent in industrial communities . |
| 59 | Two days passed , and on Sunday , 16 December , the schooner tried for a second time to get to Fort Davey but was forced back . |
| 60 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |