Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology . |
| 2 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 3 | ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . ) |
| 4 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 5 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 6 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 7 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 8 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 9 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 10 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |
| 11 | But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m . |
| 12 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 13 | The numbing stupor got her through the next few hours . |
| 14 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’ |
| 16 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 17 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
| 18 | In 1896 the fourth Congress resolved itself into the first National Council with a permanent staff and offices , at first in Birmingham and then in the Congregationalists ' London headquarters , Memorial Hall . |
| 19 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 20 | Villa won it in the second half . |
| 21 | His swarming attacks gradually overwhelmed wright who took two knock downs and a standing count before the referee halted it in the third . |