Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last autumn , a five-year-old boy from mid-Glamorgan and his parents went to Buckingham Palace to receive from the Queen the keys of the 250,000th car supplied by Motability since 1978 . |
| 2 | There is no explicit reference to Gloucester 's attainment of his majority , but Clarence was deemed to have come of age when he was sixteen and Richard 's sixteenth birthday fell in October 1468 . |
| 3 | There is no explicit reference to Gloucester 's attainment of his majority , but Clarence was deemed to have come of age when he was sixteen and Richard 's sixteenth birthday fell in October 1468 . |
| 4 | Although buildings such as Hurstmonceux had already marked a shift from the primarily military dwellings of the middle ages , the later sixteenth century saw in Sussex a flowering in great house-building which has never been equalled since . |
| 5 | Or , a more surprising inclusion , ‘ examples of permanence and survival are to be found in the immense domain of culture ’ : the Latin civilisation of the late Empire , the ‘ outillage mentale ’ of the sixteenth century outlined by Febvre , or the geometrical treatment of pictorial space . |
| 6 | Even larger and more impregnable are the immense mural towers at Angers , while the fourteenth century keep of Saumur château rises above the river and the town , dominating the landscape . |
| 7 | A second spitfire came to Douglas 's aid and the Heinkel was sent crashing to its doom in the water beside Port Seton . |
| 8 | The second story came from Branson himself , and arose from a tip-off from a journalist named Carla Dobson who worked as the assistant to the Daily Mail gossip-columnist Nigel Dempster . |
| 9 | PURSUIT OF LOVE shot to 5–1 favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas , on May 2 , with an emphatic two-length victory in yesterday 's European Free Handicap as he became the 200th winner trained by Henry Cecil for Lord Howard de Walden . |
| 10 | Bernard 's second sister went to Corfu for a holiday and came back with holiday snaps . |
| 11 | The first set in each pair were sent out to the participating schools in October and November 1985 , and the second parallel set in February 1986 . |
| 12 | Prop Ian Reynolds was dismissed for head butting in the 31–15 second division win at Aberavon . |
| 13 | But the game clashes with a full programme of Premier , First and Second Division matches in Scotland . |
| 14 | ‘ L'Esprit Français ’ was first issued last August and the second batch came in January ; more are promised for June . |
| 15 | One wants evidence from the processing of words , of course , if one is investigating a model of word recognition , and this is provided by the second experiment described by Marslen-Wilson ( 1978 ) . |
| 16 | Closed door negotiations ensued between the Presidency and Markovic , but a second vote failed on May 17 when Serbia , Montenegro , Kosovo and Vojvodina voted against Mesic , leading to a walkout by Mesic and the Slovene and Macedonian representatives . |
| 17 | The second grouping centred on William Craig who remained in the Unionist Party despite his constant criticisms of its direction . |
| 18 | Second half began with Leeds on full throttle . |
| 19 | I JOINED top Natal referee Philip Botha to watch South Africa 's second half thrashing by England on a giant TV screen in the school where he is headmaster . |
| 20 | But all they could show for their efforts were two second half tries for Barry McDermott and Richard Russell . |
| 21 | But all they could show for their efforts were two second half tries for Barry McDermott and Richard Russell . |
| 22 | Arnold , Williams and Douglas scored second half tries for Gosforth , Johnson adding a conversion and a penalty , but Morley were always in control . |
| 23 | The defending champions were trailing 10–5 at half-time on Saturday , but second half tries from Mark Titley and Kevin Hopkins , to add to a first half touchdown by Paul Arnold , put them in charge . |
| 24 | And further second half tries from Claude Sirvent and Pierre Chamorin had Wales on the rack . |
| 25 | The second half opened with Hemel threatening a stunning transformation as they outscored their opponents 9-2 to go one point ahead on the night and seven down overall . |
| 26 | A fourth test proposed in Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 was the second test stated by Lord Wilberforce . |
| 27 | Schofield was an inspirational leader in this summer 's Ashes tour when he took over from the injured Hanley and he played the game of his life in the second Test win in Melbourne . |
| 28 | Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ . |
| 29 | The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began . |
| 30 | Second place went to Colin Robertson with 11lb 14oz and third was Ricky Farrance with 1lb 8oz . |