Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration .
2 No records remain as to who lived here through the seventeenth century , when during the Civil War a bloody battle took place on the Manor 's doorstep .
3 Responsibilities , I mean , it would have to be torn down and build up again it was in such a bad shape , it was really , I mean , terrible , it must of been , it was , it was man who lived in since the second world war , alright , so you get .
4 Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit .
5 I was one of 15 who got through to the third stage which is a five day winter course .
6 shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’
7 As a member of the Advanced Volunteer Foundation , Gail was one of 750 Canadians who helped out at the fourth annual International Amateur Athletic Foundation indoor track and field meeting .
8 We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up .
9 Tearaway : Tim Horan , who scored twice in the Second Test , proves too hot to hold — even for a tackler of Scott Hastings ' calibre
10 Its students , from as far away as Java , Sumatra , Korea , China and Japan included Hsuang Tsang , the Chinese traveller who studied there in the seventh century .
11 It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists .
12 More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts .
13 The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature .
14 Mrs McIntosh , she knew , had had a young man who pulled out at the last minute ; she might take him in .
15 Mr Clark , 64 , who stood down at the last election , had assured him that he had not advised companies to conceal military use when preparing export licence applications .
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