Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They meet , and make plans for the next day . |
| 2 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 3 | He also had a keen grasp of steam locomotive matters and was responsible for introducing suburban passenger locomotives in 1945 , in which year he also made proposals for the first LMS ( and British ) main-line diesel-electric locomotives , which were finally introduced under his successor H. G. Ivatt two years later . |
| 4 | We then laid plans for the next voyage . |
| 5 | The majority of actual examples investigated by Johnson revealed profiles of the second type , so that it may be concluded that much of the material forming the bar is eroded from the sea floor . |
| 6 | However , Newell made amends in the 64th minute when he raced on to a hopeful through ball , rounded Hitchcock and fired home . |
| 7 | Both missed with other attempts before Stephens made amends in the second half , landing another three penalties and kicking three conversions . |
| 8 | The Don made amends in the second innings with a memorable 103 not out and the crowds held a ‘ bob in ’ collection to buy their idol a piano . |
| 9 | He was struck by the way that the buffalo hide pictures from the last century , drawn by his great-great grandfathers , showed the monastery as it was now , in 1997 . |
| 10 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 11 | Prof Pierotti also has doubts about the second phase — using 600 tons of lead weights under the base of the tower on its northern side to prevent the angle of incline growing . |
| 12 | We swopped experiences for the last time . |
| 13 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |
| 14 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 15 | He argues that the depression marks the exhaustion of firms ' ability to obtain profits from the last generation of innovations and their low profit rates force them to take radical steps . |
| 16 | As one commentator noted wryly , there are more companies announcing Pentium-based machines then there are actual processors : a couple of dozen manufacturers spread their wares and Intel topped the whole thing off by announcing prices for the first time , and they are not cheap — 60MHz Pentiums cost $878 , while the 66MHz chip is $965 in quantities of 1,000 . |
| 17 | Guerrillas in Kashmir used rockets for the first time on June 19 , in an attack on two waterfront hotels in Srinagar which were being used as barracks by Indian security forces . |
| 18 | So we did them again , although we used the original as the ‘ master ’ and intercut bits of the second recording . |
| 19 | The reformers go on to argue that taxes on farming , the main activity in the South , have distorted economies of the Third World . |
| 20 | Endill was led to the start of the line and told to shake hands with the first teacher , then the second , then the third and all the way along the line until the last . |
| 21 | However , we found indications in the last chapter that this could lead to a very large number of possible word strings . |
| 22 | The person chosen to start the game chases after the others and holds hands with the first person caught . |
| 23 | SOARING sales mean workers at car giant Rover are being asked to work Sundays for the first time in living memory . |
| 24 | There is a possible test for the establishment of a sense , which has consequences for the second family of tests for ambiguity described earlier . |
| 25 | CCG will continue to provide services for the first year of operation and hopefully into the future . |
| 26 | Try to relate events to the Third World . |
| 27 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 28 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 29 | ‘ I promised to help make costumes for the next production . |
| 30 | Although , as discussed in Chapter 4 , most search consultants encounter difficulties in attracting candidates on behalf of clients who insist on remaining anonymous for at least the initial stages of the search , many clients see this as a real plus in using headhunters in the first place . |