Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was the year in which we celebrated the first twenty-five years of a successful university .
2 There was widespread regret when Butler resigned , in 1935 , to join the Agricultural Research Council , of which he became the first paid secretary .
3 Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 .
4 If a holder , nonetheless , transfers his private key , the carrier will be responsible only to the party to whom it issued the last valid private key .
5 The most enthusiastic advocate of ‘ Gregorian ’ liberty during these years was Hugh , bishop of Die and later archbishop of Lyons , whom Anselm first met on his way to Rome in 1097 , and with whom he spent the last eighteen months of his exile from May 1099 to August 1100 .
6 And that 's what they called the first automatic washer .
7 He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion .
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