Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first does attempt to obtain a value , the second remains essentially a cost and not a value . |
| 2 | Unable at first to afford even a bed , she slept behind the shop on a sack filled with paper straw from the empty sweet boxes . |
| 3 | He put the senator into one of the back seats , first shoving aside a tangle of camera equipment . |
| 4 | We had last met over a year ago , when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition of the most wonderful Boucheron jewellery going back over a hundred years . |
| 5 | Both sides want to be the last to put forward a proposal , reckoning that if no rate is set , a court will pin the blame on whoever was last to reject one . |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , Maurice , we last spoke nearly a fortnight ago . |
| 7 | A third take away a quarter . |
| 8 | Well any suggestion if you 'd like to write it down one third take away a quarter . |
| 9 | Like a third take away a quarter how did you do it ? |