Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] at the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt .
2 Cannon stole one at the sixth to go 5-1 up .
3 It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last .
4 Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment .
5 He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop .
6 As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’
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