Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 3 | Robbie asked , her gesture encompassing the exchanges of the last few moments . |
| 4 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 5 | As soon as the parents of the first baby contacted health service bosses the parents of the second were told . |
| 6 | An accountant , in order to stand any chance of a career in corporate finance , must have a good academic record ( 2.1 or better ) at a recognised university ( red brick or Oxbridge ) , must have trained with one of the top accountancy firms , and passed the exams at the first attempt . |
| 7 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 8 | Can it be all together coincidence those names , places and events that made the headlines during the First World War have done so again in recent years ? |
| 9 | South Belfast MP the Rev Martin Smyth made the comments after the fourth murder by loyalist terrorists and the second IRA bomb attack in four days . |
| 10 | Mark has arranged the events of the last days of Jesus into a one-week period . |
| 11 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 12 | There are two main ways of singing the songs after the first verse . |
| 13 | Swindon Town against Newcastle United … the battle of the giants … the County Ground was bursting with its biggest crowd in years to see the gladiators of the first division … |
| 14 | We arrived to see the tops of the first ladder against the wall . |
| 15 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 16 | When he read the remarks in the first edition , the Lord of the Isles wrote angrily to Boswell ; a duel might have been fought had Boswell not agreed to edit out offending passages next time around . |
| 17 | Their most ancient forebears were connections of the echinoderms , but their cousins , much more unexpectedly , became the ancestors of the first of the backboned animals , the vertebrates . |
| 18 | In slow , careful English , she asked the gentlemen at the first table , ‘ You are ready to order ? ’ |
| 19 | The SPA on Sept. 14 announced the names of the first 20 state-owned companies to be fully privatized . |
| 20 | By the time I reached the road the medics were bringing the casualties to the First Aid post . |
| 21 | WE are told that 13 million people plan to escape from polluted cities to the clean country — but who polluted the cities in the first place ? |
| 22 | This applied , I planned the routes for the next weekend . |
| 23 | It may be worth noting that Heath himself in another article extends his time-scale further back to include the reforms of the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 24 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 25 | I realise that it is my ability to change do get do not get any separately items will affect the rights of the third party . |
| 26 | Nick Sparrow of ICM believes Labour 's tax plans and the ‘ Trojan horse ’ fear — that a vote for the Liberal Democrats might let in Labour — helped the Tories in the last 24 hours . |
| 27 | Its entrepreneurs ranged the globe and with them went the cadre of ( mostly British and Irish ) foremen , skilled workers and elite labour ; sometimes settling down in some foreign country for good , their children becoming the Anglo-Argentines of the next generation , sometimes moving from country to country like the much less numerous oilmen of our days . |
| 28 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 29 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 30 | The crossbow bolt whirred out , nicking the hindquarters of the second dog , which turned and fled howling into the darkness . |