Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poet reckons it has the first object database for NT , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 2 | If this army moved west and then south , there was no German force to prevent its taking the Eighth Army in rear and crushing it against Samsonov 's Second Army . |
| 3 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 4 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 5 | Boy did he have the last laugh . |
| 6 | Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT ( CI No 2,176 ) , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , much smaller North West neighbour Liverpool is looking to continue building up domestic and regional aviation-related business following its becoming the first local authority-owned airport to transfer from the public to private sector when it was bought by British Aerospace in 1990 . |
| 8 | His awkwardness made her remember the last time they had met — that time he had come to her and cried upon her shoulder , four days after Han Ch'in 's death . |
| 9 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 10 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |
| 11 | In October , 1991 , The Rt Hon Angela Rumbold , CBE , MP , who at that time chaired the Government 's ministerial group on women 's issues , presented Georgina Wicks ( 14 ) of La Saint Union Convent School , London , with a certificate to commemorate her becoming the 100,000th girl to gain experience of technology on a WISE vehicle since the beginning of the WISE campaign . |
| 12 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 13 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 14 | I hope to have learnt something by doing this painting to help me to get the next one that much better . |
| 15 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 16 | On the first note of the following eight-bar break I took the first step , missed the second and somersaulted down the rest , orchestrated by drum rolls and cymbal crashes as the rest of the band dissolved into discord . |
| 17 | Shrimpton 's mother fed them breakfast the next morning , but when her father showed up , he exploded and chased Bailey off the farm . |
| 18 | The only way to remove this Government is to give a decisive vote for the Labour Party to ensure they form the next government and undo as soon as possible the damage caused in the past years . |