Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bates , who beat Byron Black of Zimbabwe 3–6 6–3 7–5 in his first round match , can find comfort , too , in Wilkinson 's victory because he is due to meet Frana in the first round at Wimbledon . |
| 32 | Even that incomplete list of achievements takes on special significance when people encounter Nadia for the first time and learn how a genetic abnormality meant she was born with only one finger on each hand . |
| 33 | The Cranberries : knocking O'Hara off the 7,327,439th spot ! |
| 34 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 35 | Tomorrow Barry visits Northampton for the first time since surgeons at the local hospital saved his legs from amputation . |
| 36 | As it happened , Walter Kamm almost dismissed Joyce after the first audition . |
| 37 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 38 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 39 | To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers . |
| 40 | They returned in April , and in June visited Leeds for the last time . |
| 41 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 42 | ‘ I 'm afraid this tunic is a little on the tight side , ’ she told Marianne at the first fitting of her costume , after tugging ineffectually at the zip on the shimmery silver material . |
| 43 | It is on this trip to Moscow that Anna meets Vronsky for the first time . |
| 44 | He became increasingly concerned that the monarchical regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which committed Germany to the First World War , was over-dominated by military and bureaucratic interests at the expense of the national interest . |
| 45 | Dave meets Andy for the first time and says ‘ Nice to meet you . ’ |
| 46 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 47 | Mr Mubarak said he had accepted an invitation from President Bill Clinton to visit Washington in the first half of April . |
| 48 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 49 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 50 | The reasons for Orchomenos ' special role were geographical : she controlled the northern plain and Thebes the southern ; and also historical : Mycenaean Orchomenos had counted for at least as much as Thebes , and Orchomenos still had pretensions to lead Boiotia in the eighth century . |
| 51 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 52 | Alexander and the non-executives he has recruited , such as Sir Ian MacLaurin , Sir Michael Angus , Hanson 's Martin Taylor , and Sir Charles Powell , have decided to leap a generation in finding a manager to lead NatWest into the 21st century . |
| 53 | Remember , they only missed out on meeting Copenhagen in the first round proper by 0.3 of a point . |
| 54 | This medium , meeting Tom for the first time , said Tom 's father was with them , and he had a small brown dog . |
| 55 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 56 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 57 | The hope is that the machine will beat Europe to the next prize in elementary particle physics . |
| 58 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |
| 59 | Passing Baku in the 13th century , Marco Polo noted that the black oil burned well but was not good with food . |
| 60 | ‘ They played Ards on the first day of the season and wiped the floor with us in a 3–0 win . |