Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a student makes such a transfer , the time devoted to the one degree would normally be counted as time spent towards the other . |
| 2 | CHELSEA 's new manager , Dave Webb , yesterday discovered the magnitude of his task as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League to make it 13 games without a win . |
| 3 | He referred to the six pack and my initial thought was well , what 's a six pack of Newcastle Brown Ale got ta do with Health and Safety ? |
| 4 | In Mr Wakil 's first speech to Parliament he referred to the Five Year plan , in which an expansion of broadcasting was projected . |
| 5 | In her letter of 21 August , Ms Greengross referred to the 1989 Family Expenditure Survey which found that 25% of retired people living alone mainly dependent on the state pension do not have a telephone and linked this ‘ poor level of penetration among people who need a telephone most … to the policy of increasing rental and connection charges to the maximum permitted by the retail price index ( RPI ) + 2% price cap , while targeting businesses and heavy residential users for international call rate reductions and volume discounts ’ . |
| 6 | A Ray Upton double gained Star their second success of the season with a 2-0 win against Holmlands in division one and Windmill sailed to a 6-3 win over ESWA with Dave Harding ( 3 ) , Gary Myers ( 2 ) and Tommy Cartwright scoring . |
| 7 | Scotland , on the other hand , open the World Cup against Costa Rica in Genoa — shades of Dortmund in 1974 when they sauntered to a 2-0 win over Zaire and did not realise that this was the game to build up a healthy balance of goals . |
| 8 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 9 | Featherstone , relegated last season , coasted to a 34-15 win at Huddersfield . |
| 10 | But the highlight of the night was a superb five goal haul from last season 's leading goalscorer Kenny Morris — three from short corners — as Harp Senior League champions Holywood coasted to a 7-0 win over Civil Service at Olympia . |
| 11 | Seddons beat Alt Park United 3-2 , while Nicosia ( Joe Gibiliru , Arthur Mairah , Carl Riley , Ian Wild , Ian Hodgson ) coasted to a 5-1 success over Majors . |
| 12 | Michael Duffy coasted to a 5-1 win over Vince McCluskey in the fourth round of the Nescafe Asian Open . |
| 13 | Idly I turned to a 1975 profile of Dr Arabella Melville . |
| 14 | FIREMEN raced to a 999 call and found housewife Bernie Plank starting a hog-roast barbecue … at four in the morning . |
| 15 | Smith , the British No 23 from Staffordshire , could hardly do anything right as Croft raced to a 4-0 lead and broke service four times en route to the first set . |
| 16 | Former world champion Steve Davis also raced to a 5-0 victory in his match against the Australian John Campbell . |
| 17 | But Newtown 's mopping up efforts paid dividends when they raced to a seven wicket victory in 21 overs , Gwilym Lewis leading the charge with an unbeaten half-century and skipper Bryan Jones hitting 22 . |
| 18 | The mercurial Dean must have later softened his contempt for Duck since both he and Pope subscribed to the 1736 edition of Duck 's poems . |
| 19 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |
| 20 | WHEN Sara Gomer , Clare Wood and Julie Salmon collapsed to a 2-1 defeat to Indonesia in the first round of the Federation Cup in Melbourne last December , they were the laughing stock of the tennis world , writes our correspondent from Tokyo . |
| 21 | His Commonwealth Games team-mate Willie Wood scrambled to a 20-19 victory over David Holt while three of England 's Auckland team , David Bryant , Tony Allcock and John Ottaway , all won their opening matches . |
| 22 | The oldest player to take part was 81 year old Tom Rowney , who represented St. George 's Hill , who lost to The 45 Club by 3 matches to 1 . |
| 23 | Dundee tried hard to prevent the hat-trick but in the end the holders stormed to a 3–1 win in extra time . |
| 24 | On Friday Ireland were whitewashed 5-0 by England and , on Saturday , they slumped to a 4-2 defeat against Scotland which left them needing to beat Wales yesterday to avoid bottom place . |
| 25 | GREAT BRITAIN women paid the price for failing to capitalise on scoring chances when they slumped to a 2-1 defeat against the United States at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Sunday . |
| 26 | established as North East Two exchange places with second following their 19–9 success as Thorn plunged to a 12–10 defeat by Redcar . |
| 27 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 28 | This led to a two mile chase on my bicycle following his refusal to answer my questions and a final on the deserted marshes where large quantities of tobacco had to be recovered from the long grass in a grey December dawn . |
| 29 | AS Raith Rovers and Dunfermline confirmed their status as promotion favourites , St Mirren yesterday were still upset at a refereeing decision which virtually ended their hopes and led to a 2-1 defeat by Dumbarton . |
| 30 | It was in Silesia that a marvellous Tottenham Hotspur team , League champions and FA Cup winners in 1961 , were first introduced to the hazards of European competition , their ambitions in disarray until Dave Mackay inspired a partial recovery that led to a 8-1 success in the return at White Hart Lane . |