Example sentences of "[noun] a [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Hall 's goal that gave Alton College a 1–0 win over Barton Peveril in the quarter-finals . |
| 2 | He would rather have parachuted out of an aircraft a dozen times with full equipment in the dead of night , than spend a night on a ship . |
| 3 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 4 | ANDRE AGASSI cruised to a comfortable 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-2 triumph over Marc Rosset last night to give the United States a 1-0 lead over Switzerland in the Davis Cup final . |
| 5 | As Pontypridd gained the upper hand in the forward exchanges , Jenkins crossed for two tries to give the home side a 19–3 lead at half-time . |
| 6 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 7 | There is a pleasant little cafe bar a hundred yards down the road and a disco a little further on and far enough away to avoid disturbing the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | Roblin again bang on target with another kick which gave the visitors a 9-3 lead at half-time . |
| 9 | A POWERFUL low drive by Nick Summerbee earned England a 1–0 win over Scotland and eased them into the final of the Under-21 tournament in Toulon last night . |
| 10 | TREVOR GORDON sunk two free throws two seconds from time to give England a 75–71 triumph over Russia at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre last night . |
| 11 | Frank Pingel 's second half goal gave Denmark a 1–0 victory over Albania in Tirana , keeping the European champions unbeaten and one point behind the Republic of Ireland in group three . |
| 12 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |
| 13 | The first flare was fired , dropping away to explode into fiery incandescence a thousand feet above the surface , a snaking , burning star suspended on a miniature parachute . |
| 14 | Four penalties from four attempts by the full-back gave Ireland a 12–7 lead at the interval , Kerr responding with one penalty from three attempts before Bracken got the touch as England forced their way over the Irish line . |
| 15 | First-half goals by Brian Grant and Paul Kane gave Aberdeen a 2–0 win over Motherwell . |
| 16 | Was n't above the ground , it were sort a three feet below the ground . |
| 17 | What , after all , had she expected in the Church of England in a provincial town a hundred miles from London and the Midland conurbations ? |
| 18 | A disputed penalty in the last minute of the game with Omonia gave Apollon a 4-4 draw after being 4-2 behind with three minutes to go . |
| 19 | The only source of water was a horse trough a hundred yards from the building , there was no electric light anywhere , and we dressed in the dark . |
| 20 | A GARY CROSBY goal after 70 minutes gave Nottingham Forest a 1-0 win over QPR at the City Ground and ended 169 days ' misery in the Premier League 's bottom three . |
| 21 | In the National League play-offs , Robby Thompson hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning to give the San Francisco Giants a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs , leaving put them 2-1 ahead . |
| 22 | They found council members swamped with paper : several hundred , or in extreme cases a thousand sheets of paper being distributed to each councillor each month . |
| 23 | Just one dose of BCG vaccine a 9 months of age can prevent measles . |
| 24 | There was one surprise result as Brent Kidd 's double strike gave Section Two side Ballynahinch a 2-0 win over Newry at Blaris and a quarter-final tie with Garvey this afternoon . |
| 25 | In Division Three , Mark Brown and Mark McNally scored to give Brookhouse a 2-1 win over High Oaks . |
| 26 | Listen , I nave a thousand pounds in my pocket . |
| 27 | I think Melquíades , the Gipsy in Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude , gives an answer when he says ‘ Things have a life of their own … |
| 28 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude also begins with a childhood but it engages with a quite different feeling : |
| 29 | Tho' Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem is born |
| 30 | Goals from Joe Robertson and James McGinty yesterday earned Rangers a 2-1 win over Partick Thistle , while Celtic beat Queen 's Park 4-2 in the tournament in which the clubs now field their youth sides . |