Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes first place in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez , although Alain Prost comes third to keep him on course for Senna 's title . |
| 2 | Mary helped her to a chair : brought her the smelling salts , then a glass of ginger wine and called in Annie who helped to fuss over her until Mrs Robinson felt first petted , then relieved and finally embarrassed . |
| 3 | Mr Kluge displaced the long-time title holder , Sam Walton , only because Mr Walton chose last year to divide a $9bn Wal-Mart stores fortune among his children . |
| 4 | As to the three first designs it must be recollected that while the first prize for the Foreign Office was awarded to Messrs. Coe and Hofland , yet they did not compete for the War Office again , while in the opinion of Mr. Burn and that of the assessors , Messrs. Banks and Barry stood first in merit for the Foreign Office ; yet , according to the same opinion , they were unsuccessful for the War Office , while Mr. Scott stood second both for one and the other . |
| 5 | Middleton-St-George , near Darlington , has been without a rector since Martin King left last summer to become rural dean of Sedgefield . |
| 6 | The two men had not spoken since Mr MacSharry resigned last week over the stalemate in the Gatt trade talks with the Americans . |
| 7 | The position had remained vacant since Charles Halpin left last autumn . |
| 8 | The Station also won the Team prize , while John Thompson came second in the Van Driver of the Year Contest . |
| 9 | The East Lothian station also won the Team prize , while John Thomas came second in the Van Driver of the Year contest . |
| 10 | Something was beginning to happen to her ; as love began to drive out fear , the tension in her body relaxed , and the feelings which she had experienced when Dr Neil had first begun to make love to her , earlier that afternoon , returned again . |
| 11 | He had never missed a seance or a service , and he died , as Mr Toombs said next Sunday , a 100 per cent , fully operational Christian . |
| 12 | Picture the public stupor were the queen to indulge in a 40-minute televised monologue , as Mr Cossiga did last week , in which she claimed the right to dissolve parliament , ‘ even against parliament 's will ’ . |
| 13 | Police officers also tried to smother the flames with their jackets as Mr Griffiths lay next to his car . |
| 14 | As EAST Anglia awaits next week 's potentially dangerous North Sea tides , timber from the region 's small woodlands is being harvested in the constant fight to keep flooding at bay . |
| 15 | Brazilian samba at the Jeu de Paume as Hélio Oiticica gets first European showing |
| 16 | Provided always that nothing in these restrictions shall preclude Norwich Union from processing any proposal or application form made and dated prior to 31 October 1990 submitted through the Winchester Group or any of its company representatives and entering into any investment contract on the basis of any such a proposal or application form so long as Norwich Union has first satisfied itself that : — ( a ) any such proposal or application form is genuinely made and dated prior to 31 October 1990 ; ( b ) any such proposal or application form is accompanied by a fact find form ; and ( c ) that the fact find form has been fully completed ; and ( d ) that the information shown thereon is sufficient to show that the proposed investment contract which is the subject of the proposal or application form is in the best interests of the investor concerned . |
| 17 | He is expected to become Colchester 's manager when Jock Wallace retires next year . |
| 18 | When James Cannavino said last week that IBM Corp was not going to sell personal computer clones , what he meant was that the things would not carry an IBM logo — and so he could say that IBM was not selling them . |
| 19 | When Rachel Birch met sixth form students at the school earlier this year , they asked her how they could help . |