Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made 70 1st Division appearances for us — during that time our defence was usually under considerable pressure , most of the matches were tense affairs , and the strain on the captain was that much greater . |
| 2 | Mel was a permanent fixture in our 1st Division defences and , over the four seasons 1969–73 , only John Jackson appeared for us more times than he did , while his 151 1st Division games for us tell of a stalwart and dependable defender who could be relied upon in every situation . |
| 3 | More from Colin throughout the evening including some second half commentary for you . |
| 4 | Henry Skelton , who was twenty one , died from severe head injuries after falling from a second floor window at his |
| 5 | It had been her parents ' eighteenth birthday present to her . |
| 6 | Adventure schools use them as centres , climbing clubs arrange meets at them ; the Army Camps around them with the bothy the designated ‘ mess tent ’ , and people hold 50th birthday parties at them to save marquee costs . |
| 7 | Jim received a first and thoroughly well-merited Testimonial in November 1980 , cruised past Terry Long 's previous club record of 442 League appearances in April 1985 and proceeded to notch up his 500th League game for us at Birmingham on 18 October 1986 , his 550th League match at Hull City on 19 December 1987 and his 650th overall ( ie : including major Cup ties ) upon the occasion of Oldham Athletic 's visit to Selhurst Park on 5 March 1988 . |
| 8 | However , there are fifteenth century references to it having possessed a tower or a corner bastion . |
| 9 | It 's the first foot clinic of it 's kind in the country , dealing with what 's now called podiatry , formerly chiropody ; bunions , ingrowing toenails , sports injuries and the like . |
| 10 | It was a typical first Test performance by us . ’ |
| 11 | Simon Clarke , 20 , with just a minute of first team experience behind him , has forced his way into West Ham 's squad for tonight 's FA Cup fourth round replay at Wrexham . |
| 12 | be getting a result if you stepped in with another four phones , new lines , you 'd have the use of these four lines for three month , to generate business before you get out with first phone bill on them , right so that you could drop er the lines here if you wanted , at er , at the end of the day , it does n't matter whether you 've got one line or whether you 've got a hundred lines |
| 13 | Besides retelling the old story in the words of Charles Perrault , the first fairy-tale writer of them all , this delightful book has chapters on Bakst and the Ballets Russes , and on James de Rothschild 's commission and his life and very happy marriage to Dollie Pinto . |
| 14 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 15 | He watched the first squall race towards them , the rain compressed into a curtain above the white line of wave caps . |
| 16 | I would like to avoid defeat partly as it would avoid the first league double against us in three years and to keep the unbeaten run together . |
| 17 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 18 | Was he even now locked up in some prison cell to become once again the unkempt figure he had been when she first set eyes on him ? |
| 19 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 20 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
| 21 | ‘ I remember when I first set eyes on you at that cocktail party and I thought , In spite of her dark flowing hair and her Mediterranean beauty she has a bite about her that can only be British . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've wanted to make love to you since I first set eyes on you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It was the first bit of luck I 'd had since I first set eyes on you . |
| 24 | For she was old when Tabitha Jute first set eyes upon her , when she dragged the tarpaulins from her in the long grass of that neglected vineyard . |
| 25 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 26 | that 's why , that 's so that we can give the shop his control of supply which actually like my da , you 're saying if it was a computer disc supplier he could have next day delivery to him and then next day delivery to my man . |
| 27 | Baldwin carried both the anonymity and idleness of his last Harrow years with him to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 28 | There 's too much running on these last end-of-season races for me to be prepared to take a chance on you ! ’ |
| 29 | Well you know this next door neighbour of theirs that 's been driving cars all over the place ? |
| 30 | ‘ Last month we had a 10th birthday party for her and she invited nine friends , which she seemed to enjoy very much . |