Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the historical tripos he received a third class in both parts i ( 1915 ) and ii ( 1916 ) . |
| 2 | By consistently applying quantum mechanics to Maxwell 's theory of the electromagnetic field he constructed the first known specimen of a quantum field theory . |
| 3 | At the age of 39 and 105 days he becomes the ninth oldest player in history to make his Test debut in Friday 's historic encounter between South Africa and India in Durban . |
| 4 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 5 | The following month he reached the third round of the glitzy Paris tournament and he had cracked it . |
| 6 | As one of Wesley 's leading preachers he attended the first Methodist conference in 1744 and in 1748 promoted the system of ‘ quarterly meetings ’ to oversee the local Methodist ‘ circuits ’ ( groups of societies ) . |
| 7 | In the twilight of his playing days he won a Second Division Championship medal with Preston North End . |
| 8 | On 6 January he attended the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to the trial , and then attended most sittings of the court . |
| 9 | Gunzenhauser makes the very best of the repetitive rhythmic ideas of the outer movements and although he is perhaps a share more rhythmically plainspun than Kertész , in the first movement he eases the second subject in very nicely and the lolloping theme of the third movement Allegretto has much folksy charm . |
| 10 | The first thing he said the next day was ( no pretending ) has she been a bitch to you ? |
| 11 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 12 | In the same year he joined the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment as a second lieutenant and served in the South African war . |
| 13 | But at the same time he composed a Third Concerto which he never played or published . |
| 14 | Around the same time he composed the last of his Salzburg serenades — a brilliant D major piece using a concertante group of wind instruments rather than the usual violin , and incorporating a posthorn into one of the minuets — hence its nickname , the ‘ Posthorn ’ Serenade . |
| 15 | In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford . |
| 16 | At the end of year nine it was make my mind up time on my GCSE options , there was no doubt which I wanted to take , drama , but my father had other ideas he thought a second language would be far more constructive . |
| 17 | In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern . |
| 18 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 19 | Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place . |