Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not know who the first organist in the old church were . |
| 2 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 3 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |
| 4 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 5 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 6 | With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was . |
| 7 | I have asked no one else , I have given you the first opportunity of owning these things . ’ |
| 8 | You 're always give him the last sweet to him ! |
| 9 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |
| 10 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 11 | We always know what the next step in our lives should be — which area of our lives needs to be resolved or changed — and we need to find the courage and self-love to start moving . |
| 12 | What I 'll do is I 'll read you the first paragraph of rule six and actually bend the rule and put those words in and it really does n't make any sense at all , so listen carefully on this one and do n't be surprised if you do n't understand me . |
| 13 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 14 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 15 | We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can . |
| 16 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 17 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 18 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 19 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |
| 20 | Between the last years of the 16C and about 1653 , they rebuilt the Church of St Salvator making it the first church in Prague of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 21 | The New Forest has been designated a Special Protection Area ( SPA ) for birds by the UK government , making it the 38th site in the UK so designated under the EC wild birds directive . |
| 22 | But chapter 23 gives us the last piece of true storytelling in which Abraham is centre stage throughout . |
| 23 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 24 | Thus the fourth-seeded Soutter gained revenge over the player who denied her the last place in England 's world-title winning team this year , with a hint that her rehabilitation might now be complete . |
| 25 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 26 | This makes them the first chain of salons in the U.K. specialising in both Afro and European hairdressing . |
| 27 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 28 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |
| 29 | Just make sure you balance it the next day by enjoying a bigger portion of vegetables and fruit . |