Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That would n't have happened to McEllhoney , the big Glaswegian who worked the next beat to his . |
| 6 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 7 | The Wainwright walk was made famous by the author of the same name who pioneered the first coast to coast walk in 1972 . |
| 8 | It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others . |
| 9 | Surprisingly it was the student who took the first frame , managing a break of 54 . |
| 10 | Alcuin , the man who described the first attack , thought they were terrifying and wicked . |
| 11 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A couple who bought the last wedding ring in a Darlington jeweller 's shop celebrated their 50th anniversary this week . |
| 14 | ( 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 . ) |