Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 29 year old world number 14 was convincingly beaten 6:2,6:4 by Sweden 's Jona Spenson ranked 30 places below him in the second round of the $1 million event . |
| 2 | Today Great Britain 's No.1 for the Trophy , Clare Wood , a vicar 's daughter from Sussex , takes on Amy Frazier , who is 140 places above her in the rankings . |
| 3 | Today Great Britain 's No.1 for the Trophy , Clare Wood , a vicar 's daughter from Sussex , takes on Amy Frazier , who is 140 places above her in the rankings . |
| 4 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 5 | I recently bought a Series III 1979 lightweight with 19,000 miles on it through the British Army auction here in Hong Kong . |
| 6 | Now Wasim and Waqar have earned their place alongside them in the fast bowling Hall of Fame with 43 wickets between them in the series . |
| 7 | This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 . |
| 8 | Fairbrother 's hundred was his fifth in first-class confrontations with Yorkshire — only Chris Lloyd with six stands above him in the Red Rose list — but it was his first three-figure score since he assumed the leadership as captain-elect midway through last summer . |
| 9 | national vocation I I really think that it 's worse because they 've not , whereas when I was a trainee you had your six weeks on produce , your six weeks on whatever in the branch of that now and they did n't have that , they have n't got any training plan , so they 've got nothing to say well career , branch branch need here and I need to be here and I need to be here . |
| 10 | Jo was some 10 yards behind me near the corner . |
| 11 | Nadeem Shahid put a disappointing 1991 season behind him with a career-best innings of 132 for Essex against Kent at Chelmsford |
| 12 | The 9-1 shot will only get a run if six horses above him in the weights drop out . |
| 13 | Unlike its Scottish namesake , Leven is not by the sea but six miles from it on the main Beverley to Bridlington road , 14 miles from Bridlington and six miles from Hornsea . |
| 14 | In his now famous interview on Wednesday , Lamb pointed the finger at Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis , who shared 45 wickets between them during the five-match Test series . |
| 15 | He took the two or three steps with her to the other doorway . |
| 16 | ‘ Here 's three pence for you for a lolly if you 'll go . ’ |
| 17 | Iorwerth had three bowmen with him in the rear , to ensure that once the party entered the wood they should not turn and leave it again . |
| 18 | When Annie signalled to take the motorway exit just below Kendal , Ellwood had pushed forward a little , leaving only three vehicles between them at the intersection . |
| 19 | Take three photographs of yourself at the beginning of this programme — a straight front view , a side view and a back view . |
| 20 | They were not even allowed to attempt to grow things in tubs in their black area , for reasons vague but peremptory , put forward by their landlady , an octogenarian Mrs Irving , who inhabited the three floors above them in a rank civet fug amongst unnumbered cats , and who kept the garden as bright and wholesome and well-ordered as her living-room was sparse and decomposing . |
| 21 | City are thus able to check the Premier table to find they have eight teams below them with a gap of nine points separating them from the relegation zone . |
| 22 | And also , I mean , if we turn over hundred thousand pound with you in a year you 're gon na make some money out of that . |
| 23 | Still , as long as the occupants are happy huddling in a spartan hut with the fantasy that they are men of the wilds , while people read the Daily Record under a golf umbrella and pass round the digestives a few thousand feet above them on the Ben then who can criticise ? |
| 24 | The regarders accused one of them , Ralph of Abinghall , of having impounded in Walmore Green the animals belonging to the men of the district , extorted sixty geese from them as an amercement , and kept the beasts for himself , although all profits of such attachments belonged to the king . |
| 25 | yeah because ten to fifteen years earlier there was n't this amount of class consciousness and now you 're saying that bond 's completely broken down which I may agree with you on but , but they 're now organizing themselves purely on this hey we 're all friends now or s and we 've got ta gang together all seventy percent of us against the landlords which was n't |
| 26 | If it 's worth more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds between you at the moment and you leave it all to your surviving spouse then when he or she dies in due course and if those figures have n't altered they 'll be inheritance tax to pay . |
| 27 | We were camped on a sand and gravel plain with the road running north–south , fifty yards from us to the east . |
| 28 | I often get ten minutes with her in a corridor , and sit quite near her table in the cafeteria , and there 's a stairwell where we go and kiss — where we breathe into one another . |
| 29 | This means that in order to slay the Grand Theogonist the enemy must inflict the full 3 wounds on him before the end of the next shooting or hand-to-hand combat phase . |
| 30 | Two sixty , two eighty two hundred and eighty pounds against you at the back and selling for two hundred and eighty pounds two eighty , one one nine . |