Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 2 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 3 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 4 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 5 | An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology . |
| 6 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 7 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 8 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 9 | ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . ) |
| 10 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 11 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 12 | He caught the wide , levelled eyes watching him with the first faint shadow of doubt and disquiet , almost distaste , and laughed shortly . |
| 13 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 14 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 15 | ‘ The commission took into consideration their record over the past five years , ’ said Graham Kelly , the FA 's chief executive , ‘ but they also noted that they had taken steps to improve it over the last 18 months . ’ |
| 16 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 17 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 18 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 19 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 20 | The Formula One world champion test drives it for the first time in Phoenix on January 4 and will find his sleek , high-speed T93 series chassis also longer , bigger , heavier and cheaper than any previous IndyCar or championship-winning Canon Williams Renault FW14 . |
| 21 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 22 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 23 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 24 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 25 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 26 | The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) . |
| 27 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 28 | The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War . |
| 29 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 30 | Ruthin join them in the last four after routing Rhos on Sea 8–1 , Arwyn Pierce and Stephen Flanagan and Geraint Wyn Jones and Dave Fuller with three wins and Sid Smith and Stefan Dowitcz two . |