Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] from the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market .
2 And a grievous weeping came from the last of the three reeds .
3 The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile .
4 Three children survived from the first marriage , John , Richard , and Alice , who married Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , the customs official , and one daughter from the third , Elizabeth , who married Sir William Morgan of Monmouthshire .
5 Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest .
6 The only optimistic statement came from the third cadre of military transport , which had recently held two cell meetings .
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