Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society .
2 A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) .
3 ‘ The previous season I missed the last 12 games through a hernia operation and Achilles tendon trouble .
4 While the Scot won the opening frame he lost the next three , but his highest break of the match , 74 , suggested Hallett had a problem on his hands .
5 I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with .
6 By consistently applying quantum mechanics to Maxwell 's theory of the electromagnetic field he constructed the first known specimen of a quantum field theory .
7 From the humble beginnings of the previous year you flew the first great test of concept of long-range strategic bombardment .
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