Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 .
2 The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence .
3 Thus midday discovered me with a second scotch in my hand , a Pakki nightie round my waist , and a half-naked sex-stewardess straddling my thighs .
4 They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that .
5 So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek .
6 The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession .
7 He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant .
8 That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing .
9 At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further .
10 Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain .
11 The Bill was then printed with the Committee 's revisions , and considered by a Committee of the whole House on 13th July , who sent it for a Third Reading .
12 I commandeered it without a second thought . ’
13 Tom gave a slow , satisfied nod and left them after a last reassuring pat on Faye 's shoulder .
14 ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything .
15 Cumbria 's Dave Swanson opened up a lead over Paul Dugdale after 5K , and stretched it into a 16-second victory .
16 Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year .
17 Every mouthful made me heave , but I forced it down and chased it with a second one bought by Malc .
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