Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 2 | The tellers look first at who receives the first preference on each ballot paper and put into each candidate 's box every ballot paper on which he is number one . |
| 3 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 4 | He bought the property of Camsiscan in Craigie Parish and married an elder sister of Hugh Montgomerie of Coilsfield , the man whose name was immortalised by Burns as ‘ Sodger Hugh ’ , and who became the 12th Earl of Eglinton . |
| 5 | De Maizière was replaced as deputy leader on Sept. 23 by Angela Merkel , the ( East German ) Minister for Women and Youth Affairs in the federal government , who became the first woman in the CDU leadership . |
| 6 | Peter Reid , the Manchester City manager , yesterday tried to take some of the heat out of the aftermath of the derby by defending Pointon , who became the first player to be sent off in this series of fixtures since 1974 . |
| 7 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |
| 8 | Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society . |
| 9 | Thanks to Vo Quy — who led the first team of Vietnamese scientists south of the seventeenth parallel to investigate the environmental damage caused during the US/Vietnam war — almost every student in Vietnam plants one to three trees per year as part of the school curriculum . |
| 10 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 11 | It was Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham who made the first connection in the jigsaw , 12 years ago . |
| 12 | Mykerinus , who built the third pyramid at Giza , is seen with the beautiful goddess Hathor , the goddess of dance , music and love . |
| 13 | At 1100 hours all is set and the parade ground is filled by the long ranks of the 180 members of Training Company and the Pegasus Band all awaiting the arrival of the Inspecting Officer , Brigadier Mike Scott DSO CBE , who commanded the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards in the Falklands War . |
| 14 | eg. ( SELF , UP , DOWN ) would cause the model to first look at the user who caused the last transition for a possible match , followed by a search up the user tree and then down the tree . |
| 15 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 16 | There was no water , though , for an artificial Thames ; and the whole relic , presently used as a backdrop for the film of A Passage to India , is patrolled by a pensioner who served the last war in South Shields . |
| 17 | They see a market opportunity on the right among disgruntled Christian Democrats who like the Germany-first message of the far right but dislike its extremist image . |
| 18 | That would n't have happened to McEllhoney , the big Glaswegian who worked the next beat to his . |
| 19 | In this first commotion he lost his guardian and friend , M de Flesseille , ‘ who fell the second victim to that unjust , indiscriminate vengeance , of the enraged people ’ . |
| 20 | The British sweet tooth was cultivated by sugar traders who formed the third side of the triangular slave trade : British cotton goods were exported to Africa , African slaves to the West Indies and West Indian sugar to Britain . |
| 21 | Cathy Gerring , who pocketed the first prize of £500,000 in the recent World Championship of Women 's Golf at the exquisite Urban Cely course near Paris , is a golfer apart , a player who sparkles with or without her clubs . |
| 22 | He has a senior wife who lays the first egg in the scrape he makes in the ground for her . |
| 23 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 24 | For Yeovil , who reached the fifth round against Manchester United in 1948-49 — they lost 8-0 at Old Trafford — modern reality tells a different story . |
| 25 | A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen . |
| 26 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 27 | Dutchman Marcel Albers , who won the first race at Donington , compatriot Oswaldo Negri and Belgian Mikke Van Hool were all slightly quicker in testing during the week so de Ferran will need to be at peak to clinch top spot , as he twice did for Edenbridge Racing last year . |
| 28 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 29 | Congratulations to The Mighty Fall , who won the first heat of the Cool FM/Kit Kat ‘ Make The Break ’ competition in the Limelight recently . |
| 30 | However , his main opponent , Mohamed Taki , who won the first round of the presidential election , continued to accuse Djohar of vote-rigging and was linked to an alleged attempt to overthrow the government discovered in August [ see below ] . |