Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 2 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 3 | Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day . |
| 4 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 5 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 6 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 10 | Donna joined Stoddards within the last two years . |
| 11 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 12 | The winners have Grimsby in the next round and that 's a good draw . |
| 13 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 14 | Where did Karen meet Drew for the first time ? |
| 15 | Peter Baker , John Daly and Sevvy Ballesteros are all out ; Pavin , Elkington and Frost joining Monty in the last eight . |
| 16 | November is seldom an easy month for you and , until the Sun enters Sagittarius around the 22nd , life tends to be somewhat dreary and downbeat . |
| 17 | But one the Sun enters Gemini on the 19th and makes a decisive aspect to Jupiter on the 26th , the worst will be over . |
| 18 | The Sun enters Gemini on the 20th and highlights romance and the good things in life , but tempers could flare if you do n't settle a complex moral or financial issue . |
| 19 | Norsemen conquered Orkney in the ninth century when the islands became dependencies of Norway and Denmark . |
| 20 | Unpublished figures from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , Greenpeace says , indicate that 22,580 tons of toxic waste entered Britain in the first six months of this year . |
| 21 | A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time . |
| 22 | DAY 42 and Michael and the team hit Istanbul on the last boat out of Odessa . |
| 23 | It 's going to be a full-time job to drag Europe into the twenty-first century . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is on this trip to Moscow that Anna meets Vronsky for the first time . |
| 26 | The Royal Academy shows Calder in the first British show for thirty years |
| 27 | Arguing that Richard 's attack on Toulouse was a breach of the truce of 1187 — which Richard denied — Philip invaded Berry for the second time in twelve months , though he first took care to ascertain that Henry II disclaimed any responsibility for his son 's actions and was therefore unlikely to move swiftly to his assistance . |
| 28 | They 're going to be collected alright I 'm gon na meet them halfway actually between here and Derbyshire erm at the end of November beginning of December and they are actually going , the last lorry leaves Derbyshire on the tenth of |
| 29 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 30 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |