Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
| 2 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 3 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 4 | Holroyd Smith was indeed keen to demonstrate the relative success of his new traction system : on June 29th he operated the first test runs in Princess Street , using one of the experimental Manchester cars . |
| 5 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 6 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 7 | In 1891 he gained the first Whitworth exhibition awarded to a member of the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute . |
| 8 | Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ . |
| 9 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 10 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 11 | In 1868 he founded the first lodge in England , ‘ Columbia ’ lodge no. 1 . |
| 12 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 13 | When he took over his father 's stables in 1968 he became the fourth generation of the family to train at Newmarket but he broke tradition when he moved to North Yorkshire in 1970 . |
| 14 | In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 . |
| 15 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |