Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the gurus argued , this slump had produced the first fall in house prices since the early 1950s . |
| 2 | We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons . |
| 3 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |
| 4 | The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 . |
| 5 | After about ten minutes — several riderless horses had skipped over the line by now , and another contender had cleared the last jump , and was gaining — Bumboy was finally scourged out of a series of circles and flopped over the line , home by half a length . |
| 6 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 7 | Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem " Loy " ( who had earlier met Shevardnadze ) , when Baker reportedly said that Angola 's moves towards multiparty democracy had removed the last obstacle to US endorsement of a peace settlement . |
| 8 | The 6th Fleet had inherited the nineteenth and early twentieth century roles of the British navy in the Mediterranean . |
| 9 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 10 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 11 | Colonel Hamilton told his men that the Prime Minister had described the second battle of the Marne as the greatest victory in the history of the war . |
| 12 | There were two jangling mistakes from Horner giving away early penalty points to Soutter , and after only 11 minutes the former champion had pocketed the first game with a good backhand drop from a short ball . |