Example sentences of "[Wh det] [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 | And that 's what they called the first automatic washer . |
| 5 | 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 . |