Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 4 | The Brazilian agent saw me the next morning . |
| 5 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 6 | Daddy and Mummy greeted her the next morning . |
| 7 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 8 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't usually let a bloke kiss me the first time , ’ she said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 12 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 13 | MapInfo Inc , Troy , New York , is shipping its MapBasic Development Environment for Unix calling it the first programming language for GUI systems allowing corporate developers to customise desktop mapping applications for a given industry or department . |
| 14 | The bad news reached her the next morning even before she had finished dressing , and then before very many days had passed she found out her condition , and the skies really fell in for her . |
| 15 | The first person to find the thimble hides it the next time . |
| 16 | God knows what the next move is . |
| 17 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 18 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 21 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 22 | Steve White says its the first stepping stone of a month , where they have all the top teams and it 's very much in their own hands . |