Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 ( 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 . )
5 The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university .
13 The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War .
14 Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well .
15 Cannon stole one at the sixth to go 5-1 up .
16 ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee .
17 It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last .
18 It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England .
19 But Gareth Williams beat him on the second .
20 Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth .
21 Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety .
22 Joshua Morris submitted himself to the first of the day 's body-searches .
23 SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it .
24 As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’
25 In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place .
26 Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green .
27 Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed .
28 But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m .
29 Whilst we recognise that conditions favoured us in the first quarter in that weather-related losses were comparatively light , the worldwide nature of the improvement , together with encouraging indications so far in the second quarter , lead us to believe that the worst is behind us and that trends will continue to improve .
30 Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked .
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