Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a spring in my step and when Craig Brewster played a nice through ball into the box , my old legs managed to carry me there and I got a second goal that I did n't expect . ’ |
| 2 | And I won a first prize so I said , . |
| 3 | If the supplier goes bust and you have a third party maintenance contract , the maintenance company should still honour your warranty , as the agreement is between you and the maintenance company and not with the supplier . |
| 4 | If the supplier goes bust and you have a third party maintenance contract , the maintenance company should still honour your warranty , as the agreement is between you and the maintenance company and not with the supplier . |
| 5 | A lot of you are doing it because you want to go onto further or higher education , and you needed a third A Level to add to your other two . |
| 6 | You know you read the , the columns and you buy a second hand car and you buy one this week and you read the column next week |
| 7 | He hurried her out of the restaurant and she took a last look at the castle as he drove past , promising herself she would return one day . |
| 8 | There are now two charges , q1 and q2 , and we bring a third one , q3 , from infinity . |
| 9 | That means , they 've raised a third , we 've given them a third , and they got a third to raise . |
| 10 | It was in Los Angeles , not Hollywood , and it still is , and they opened a second one in Florida . |
| 11 | And they have a second honeymoon to go with their second wedding — Amanda 's £1,500 Caribbean holiday prize for winning Slimming magazine 's competition . |
| 12 | In fact he could n't get them all in , and he acquired a second box , a small tea chest he found , with metal corners . |
| 13 | Such a male has a territory so much better than that of neighbours that a ‘ polygyny threshold ’ is surpassed and he gains a second mate . |
| 14 | Connelly was about to push the door when it was opened from the inside and he found a third man there . |
| 15 | In 1930 he won an open scholarship to read modern history at Trinity College , Cambridge , and he gained a first in part i of the modern history tripos ( 1932 ) , and an aegrotat in part ii ( 1933 ) . |
| 16 | The second chest has an identical trap , save that this time the poison in the darts is Elfbane , and it has a second trap which will be activated only if the chest is forcibly opened . |
| 17 | But no-one gives a second glance to a frail Japanese man , who stands , cupping his hand over a cigarette , looking a little lost amid the general traffic . |
| 18 | Well , for a hundred miles or an hour , but you did a tenth of a mile in a , a thousandth of an hour . |
| 19 | Thirty six so that was one way of working out a tenth of it but we want a fifth . |
| 20 | About 70 million years ago the brain of the most advanced animals had cerebral hemispheres , but they composed a third or less of the whole brain . |
| 21 | Culley thought that too , but he made a last try . |
| 22 | ANDY THORN 'S matchwinner ensured Crystal Palace 's revival continued to gather pace — but it meant a sixth defeat in eight games for Leeds , the crumbling champions . |