Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two birdies in his first three holes and another at the sixth gave him a flying start but it was not all so straightforward . |
| 2 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
| 3 | Sir Richard Hadlee is another who was nowhere near his knighthood as Test cricket 's leading wicket-taker when Notts first tossed him the new ball . |
| 4 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 5 | A missed downhill three-footer at the 18th denied him a red round . |