Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 2 | I intended to explore the ways in which major English writers of the sixteenth century created their own performances , to analyze the choices they made in representing themselves and in fashioning characters … but as my work progressed , I perceived that fashioning oneself and being fashioned by cultural institutions — family , religion , state — were inseparably intertwined . |
| 3 | Plagues and continued French raids in the fourteenth century halted its growth . |
| 4 | A second measure had him pacing the house again . |
| 5 | Across the highway , the driver of the second rig swung his wheel hard over and accelerated in through the gap in the wake of the three fire tenders . |
| 6 | A second look confirmed they were there , but he asked photographer Douglas McCord to take a picture to convince everyone that they do n't put something strong in the gatehouse tea and coffee . |
| 7 | For the appropriate timing for such an application , see Ginera Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 , in which the Second Division considered it would be " odd " if an applicant who had only a provisional grant of a licence , could have permission for Sunday opening before the licence for the premises was in force . |
| 8 | The second aircraft made his attack over the breakwater , released his torpedo and saw a hit on destroyer . |
| 9 | By providing Japan with the opportunity to save face and make an orderly withdrawal from drift-net fishing , the UN Second Committee bound them into a commitment to cease drift-net operations in the near future — an astonishing achievement for a campaign which had only really gathered momentum 10 months earlier , with the sinking of the Sankichi Maru . |
| 10 | ABERDEEN scored their first victory at Parkhead in three seasons when a Mixu Paatelainen goal in the second half gained them the spoils today . |
| 11 | The second thrust tore her . |
| 12 | She could n't hold the challenge of Kostroma in the straight , but second place brought her earnings worldwide to half a million pounds . |
| 13 | Our second group believed their families to be highly supportive of their official careers in school . |
| 14 | A power-play goal by Searle half-way through the second period made it 5-4 and with so many minutes left on the clock , a decisive result looked certain . |
| 15 | Milton , owned by Mr and Mrs Tom Bradley , whose daughter , the late Caroline , produced him as a youngster , would have achieved a second record had he won in California . |
| 16 | I did n't realize what had happened until the second bomb followed it . |
| 17 | The second picture showed what remained of the wrecked car in Prague , the car which had belonged to Ladislav Sacher . |
| 18 | The second plaintiff became its administrator in 1980 . |
| 19 | A second charge accused him of having between the same dates — July 1 and August 20 , 1993 — attempted to force Mr McIvor to refrain from giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Wilson . |
| 20 | For a second shock held her immobile . |
| 21 | For a second Donna thought he 'd been standing there looking at her , this man in the leather jacket and trousers which were too short . |
| 22 | At some stage he married again and his second wife predeceased him . |
| 23 | the first , he must rate the his second wife did it ! |
| 24 | In fact , his second wife outlived him by a quarter of a century . |
| 25 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 26 | Their second gig earned them a rave review by NME 's Jim Shelley . |
| 27 | She was expecting to be pinned down by a concentrated bout of gunfire to give the German a chance to retreat but instead the second sniper swung his FN FAL on the unsuspecting German and gunned him down . |
| 28 | The second man released her and went into the hall to collect two coats and a hat . |
| 29 | A second man joined him . |
| 30 | The second man pushed me back against the wall . |