Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 A second truck appeared behind the first , and a third behind that .
2 erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar .
3 On October ninth , the Ninety Second Group participated in the Eighth Airforce 's longest mission to assault the harbour area at Gdynia , Poland on the western side of the Danzig , twenty one aircraft led by took off at eight hundred hours and twenty returned ten and a half hours later .
4 S.J. Snooke of South Africa , who led his side to defeat against England over his 29th birthday , Feb. 1 , 1910 , was the first overseas player to be able to offer birthday cake at the tea interval , but the first captain to five himself a victory as a birthday present was the Australian H.L. Collins , whose 36th birthday fell on the fifth day of the seven-day third Test against England in January 1925 , which Australia eventually won by 11 runs .
5 The first group consisted of the first 15 consecurive patients and 11 consecutive volunteers who were asked not to swallow any saliva ( they were asked to spit it out ) .
6 They lacked adventure and their first corner came in the 75th minute .
7 Wright 's first goal came in the 33rd minute .
8 At York , the first pageant proceeded to the first station at 4.30am , and it would be around midnight when the last play reached the twelfth and last station .
9 DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’
10 Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume .
11 So there 's me like I 'm sat in first lesson we have P E last lesson sat in the first lesson and I 'm th , I 've thought God my bra strap feels really lose !
12 A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 .
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