Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb past] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British sweet tooth was cultivated by sugar traders who formed the third side of the triangular slave trade : British cotton goods were exported to Africa , African slaves to the West Indies and West Indian sugar to Britain . |
| 2 | It was the visitors who created the first half 's best chance through their lively striker , Marshall . |
| 3 | In July 1940 , following France 's military defeat and occupation by the German army , Tixier-Vignancour was one of the majority of deputies who abolished the Third Republic and voted plenary powers to Marshal Petain . |
| 4 | I was awoken around seven this morning by two officers who spent the next hour cross-questioning me . |
| 5 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 6 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |