Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now took the first positive steps , although still not without considerable misgivings . |
| 2 | I therefore move the first special resolution . |
| 3 | I therefore move the second special resolution . |
| 4 | I recently attended the 5th Euro Rugby Trophy Tournament at Leiden who have as their club motto ‘ Doorzetten Is Onze Kracht ’ ( Fortitude is our Strength ) , which the players have adapted to ‘ Drinkken Is Onze Kracht ’ — ‘ Drinking Is ’ … |
| 5 | We also discussed the next great problem in international affairs , that posed by the Soviet Union , that victorious and self-confident power , with which our politicians , and above all Ernest Bevin , were already grappling . |
| 6 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 7 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 8 | It also saw the first major electoral success for Labour : twenty-nine Labour and Lib-Lab members were returned . |
| 9 | It also forced the ninth triple tie of the competition . |
| 10 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 11 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 12 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 13 | He returned under a congressional amnesty to contest the 1988 presidential elections , when he narrowly lost the second round run-off ballot to the ID 's Rodrigo Borja Cevallos [ see p. 36097 ] . |
| 14 | But it is sometimes forgotten that as far back as 1909 he built his own aeroplane in which he then made the first recorded flight over Ireland . |