Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [num ord] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used the last of that er Minit or whatever you call it , Monit |
| 2 | As a leading suffragette , she endured the first of two spells in Holloway gaol in 1907 . |
| 3 | That same year , she won the first of two successive British Girls ' titles |
| 4 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 5 | When the two kings met they had the first of many quarrels . |
| 6 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 7 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 8 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 9 | Bruce Babbitt , the interior secretary , stepped into this fetid atmosphere on April 30th when he chaired the first of four meetings in the west to hear testimony about grazing on federal land . |