Example sentences of "a [num] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Nagle took a 75 in the third round , it was a two-horse race : Arnold and Dai . |
| 2 | Come the tournament he certainly putted well enough , and we were there after a 70 in the first round and a shot behind Jack Nicklaus after the second round . |
| 3 | As Laura Davies was struggling with a right hand injured in a cricketing accident on the eve of the tournament , registering a 79 in the first round , Pam Wright was putting together the most meticulous of level-par 73s . |
| 4 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first and then stole a single . |
| 5 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first , then stole a single and had a 3 at the seventh to go 8-2 up . |
| 6 | It was really exciting as Jack finished sixth , shooting a 67 on the last day . |
| 7 | Faldo ruined his chances with a 76 on Saturday — and even a 67 on the last day could only put him in joint second place . |
| 8 | He totalled 98 on his first professional outing , which included a 10 at the eleventh . |
| 9 | In the morning foursomes Alliss and Dawson were level par for 17 holes in defeating Bruce Critchley and Warren Humphreys on the 18th green , the only blemish on their card coming in the shape of a 7 on the 7th hole . |
| 10 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |
| 11 | Kite was the danger for the start , but he took a six on the 10th . |
| 12 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 13 | Dave had taken a six at the 17th from nowhere . |
| 14 | However , a six at the 14th brought him back level with Woosnam . |
| 15 | I had a six in the third place. : |
| 16 | Stan Burton , back to his best , had one shot to spare against the successful John Lynch picking up a three on the last end to win 1716 in a quality contest . |
| 17 | He had gone 3 , 2 at the 11th and 12th , then followed it with a three at the 14th , where he hit an eight-iron to a yard . |
| 18 | It began with a three at the 10th , where he hit a four-iron to 20ft and holed the putt . |
| 19 | Todd was six strokes off the lead at the half-way mark , but promptly shot a 77 in the third round and eventually finished 71st , earning $594 . |
| 20 | Watson slipped to a 77 in the third round while Nowicki shot his record breaking 67 , but the lead going into the final round was shared by MacPherson and Cottrell , who added a 71 to his earlier rounds of 73–74 . |
| 21 | In the Masters he blew his chances by pushing an over-clubbed second shot into the crowd to take a bogey-five on the last hole and lose by a stroke to Jack Nicklaus after leading going into the last round . |
| 22 | On good drawing ice , Smith had a 4 at the first . |
| 23 | Smith drew for a 4 at the first . |
| 24 | The holders , Hammy McMillan 's Stranraer , had a 4 at the eighth to break Warwick Smith 's Perth and win by 9-3 . |
| 25 | Jack faded out of it with a 76 in the third round , though , and then had that fantastic 65 in the last round — all too late . |
| 26 | As an example , Toshiba says it will ask $1,330 for the PC , $1,610 for SC and $1,932 for the MC in quantities of a thousand during the first half of 1993 . |
| 27 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first , then stole a single and had a 3 at the seventh to go 8-2 up . |
| 28 | We said we will try to extract that sulphur … so we are spending a fortune , well over a billion in the first instance , and then another £600 million after that , to try to take the sulphur out . ’ |
| 29 | We had a 66 on the first day , five-under . |
| 30 | Tom Watson came into the reckoning after also carding a 66 in the third round . |