Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 2 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 3 | Thoroughly wet wood has something like a third of the strength and stiffness of completely dry wood . |
| 4 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 5 | Or to go to the police and report her as a Fifth Columnist . ’ |
| 6 | Articles written by the gallery 's curatorial , scientific and conservation staff in the latest volume ( number 14 ) include an analysis of the underdrawing found in Raphael 's ‘ Garvagh Madonna ’ during a study by infra-red reflectography , prompted by the examination of the recently identified ‘ Madonna dei Garofani ’ by Raphael ; an account of the history , conservation and painting technique of two of Canaletto 's Venetian scenes in the Gallery 's Collection , ‘ The stonemason 's yard ’ and ‘ The upper reaches of the Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo ’ ; the results of the investigation and treatment of Laurent de la Hyre 's ‘ Allegorical Figure of Grammar ’ , relating it to a second version in the Walters Art Gallery , Baltimore ; and a discussion of the technique and perspective scheme in Bramantino 's recently restored ‘ Adoration of the Magi ’ . |
| 7 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 8 | But as he drove himself into a last titanic effort to surface into the light , the pain began to divide and concentrate itself in three separate areas of his body ; his head , his right arm and his chest . |
| 9 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 10 | This does not mean that the applicant can not let the house , but if she sells it , or simply uses it as a second home , she may have to pay back the whole or part of the grant with interest . |
| 11 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 12 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 13 | Having supplied them with a fifth chair , Amiss made them generally comfortable and vanished noiselessly through the nearest door . |
| 14 | Thus if a bailee negligently allows goods in his charge to be destroyed the plaintiff 's loss is just the same as if the bailee had wrongfully sold them to a third party but there is no conversion because the negligent ( as opposed to deliberate ) destruction is not an assertion of any rights in the goods . |
| 15 | And the sold them for a third profit so what did he sell them for ? |
| 16 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 17 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 18 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 19 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 20 | Something between 60 and 100 MPs are eager to clip Mrs Thatcher 's wings by staging a show of disaffection or by forcing her into a second round when the first round votes are cast , on December 5 under the most likely timetable . |
| 21 | So really erm er you 'd have to be a bit careful if you were doing that , and er I think the revenue would be pretty iffy about you holding money and paying it to a third party . |
| 22 | The holder can not cash the cheque , but only pay it in to a bank account , or savings bank , or assign it to a third party . |
| 23 | Get them for a last bargain . |
| 24 | Thus midday discovered me with a second scotch in my hand , a Pakki nightie round my waist , and a half-naked sex-stewardess straddling my thighs . |
| 25 | And Argentina might bankrupt itself with a second invasion . |
| 26 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 27 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 28 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 29 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 30 | Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home . |