Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a case of grabbing first and taking as much as you could before your neighbour pulled the dish away from you . |
| 2 | Perhaps Somalia has more in common with Chad , another desert full of warlords , where the toppling of one gang by another caused no more than a bit of looting last month . |
| 3 | Try a bit of cancelling first . |
| 4 | SKIPPER Huw Woodland has dealt Maesteg a blow by joining First Division rivals Neath . |
| 5 | To those who knew no better , he told a story of having first taken the examinations and done brilliantly . |
| 6 | There is even a chapter on buying second hand — which has to be a boon for other Leica devotees . |
| 7 | BRIAN MARWOOD is set to give his fading career a lift by joining First Division strugglers Luton Town . |
| 8 | Goodyear was among a group of major companies threatened with worldwide suspension from motor sport by FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre as a penalty for supporting next Sunday 's ‘ pirate ’ Indycar race at Surfers Paradise in Australia . |
| 9 | It 's gone well , and so there are plans to do quite a lot of touring next year , starting in March , as Brian 's album does n't come out in the States until January or February . |
| 10 | While the Scottish Wildlife Trust has for some time had a system for identifying second tier biological sites , primarily as a conservation mechanism , no such system has been created for geological or geomorphological sites , until now . |
| 11 | No evidence that Italy or Germany had prior knowledge of outbreak of war yet arms aircraft sent within a fortnight of rising 15th July 1936 . |
| 12 | He did rather acquire a reputation for speaking first and thinking later , did n't he ? |
| 13 | To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous . |
| 14 | NIGEL MANSELL 'S old boss Frank Williams will be waiting on the sidelines today as motor sport 's top brass sit down in Paris to find a way of saving next year 's Grand Prix calendar and prevent his Williams team from paying a massive fine . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , over at Wilderspool for today 's TV inter-county Regal Trophy clash between Warrington and Bradford Northern , Wire coach Brian Johnson springs a surprise in relegating last season 's Great Britain tourist and Wales scrum-half , Kevin Ellis , to the substitutes ' bench . |
| 16 | The 22-year-old fashion student has sewn up the opportunity of a lifetime by winning last night 's Northern Ireland Smirnoff Fashion Designer of the Year Award . |
| 17 | Thompson won the Olympic title that year , 1980 , successfully defended it in 1984 and has n't completed a decathlon since finishing fourth in the 1988 Games in Seoul . |
| 18 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 19 | There has been an advantage in looking first at an exercise because its very ‘ task ’ orientation often makes the structure explicit , whereas in group drama one has often to look for it . |
| 20 | Tony did express an interest in going last time so we felt that |