Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He later urged voters to support Lissouba in the second round and , according to sources close to the two parties , on Aug. 11 UPADS entered into a formal electoral alliance with the PCT . |
| 2 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 3 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 4 | Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ? |
| 5 | Uniform start date to be Thursdays , and matches to include Saturday as the third day . |
| 6 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 7 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 8 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 9 | The Democratic Convention also won the mayoralties of the important cities of Brasov , Constanta , Ploiesti , Sibiu and Arad ( having won Timisoara in the first round , with 64 per cent of votes ) . |
| 10 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 11 | KEVIN Campbell , Arsenal 's goal-greedy hit man , plans to overshadow team mate Ian Wright and Blackburn 's Alan Shearer in the race to provide England with the next generation of strike stars . |
| 12 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 13 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 14 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
| 15 | What do you think of Karl Ludvigsen 's prediction that Fiat will buy Chrysler in the next decade ? |
| 16 | Computer Reseller News and its vendor sources say Intel , which already bumped Pentium into the first quarter , will be delaying it until late next year because of those heat dissipation and manufacturing problems we told you about ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 17 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 18 | But , within 60 seconds , the visitors opened the scoring when former International , Niall Sturrock , beat Larmour at the second attempt with a well placed lob after a poor clearance by Nicky Blease had produced the initial chance . |
| 19 | Bari punished Pompey in the second half when Caglianelli and Alessio struck twice in 40 seconds , with Capocchiano adding a late third . |
| 20 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 21 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
| 22 | Slick catching aided the West Indies effort , Lara setting the pattern by swooping low to his left as the solitary slip to despatch Wessels off the last ball of the day 's third over , and their captain gone , the South Africans never appeared to have the conviction that they could achieve their moderate target . |
| 23 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 24 | Nguyen Van Linh , the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , visited China during the first half of May . |
| 25 | Wigan will meet Oldham in the semi-finals of the Greenalls Lancashire Cup if they beat Swinton in the second round next Tuesday . |
| 26 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 27 | Owen was , they declared : Did they , one wonders , ponder on the words ‘ illustrious disciple ’ as they dismissed Marx to the second rank of the misled and misleading who had got their economics so grossly wrong ? |
| 28 | Honest , lovey , ’ the dresser said as she helped Constance into the first dress . |
| 29 | Rangers streamed forward , and went close several times before the woodwork again came to Tottenham 's rescue , denying Sinton in the 16th minute . |
| 30 | I drew Lewis in the second round and came in second behind him . |