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 . |