Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 3 | Billie Jean King played in the first five Federation Cup finals . |
| 4 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 5 | Mark Bright and David Hirst struck in the first half , with Carlton Palmer and Roland Nilsson adding two more to kill off Rangers . |
| 6 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 7 | Neil Cowie goes into the second row , Billy McGinty to loose forward and skipper Dean Bell returns to centre . |
| 8 | Richard Carlile followed with the first book on contraception in 1826 ( Every Woman 's Book ) , followed by Moral Physiology by the American socialist Robert Dale Owen , 1830 , and Dr Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy in New York in 1832 . |
| 9 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 10 | Top price in the dairy ring of £1,130 was paid for a choice calved Friesian heifer and a calved Ayrshire heifer sold at the second top price of £1,070 . |
| 11 | Everyday objects are of course the stock-in-trade of Arman , whose retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum continues until the 26th of this month . |
| 12 | The 23-year-old Tynesider , now recovered from a serious pelvic injury , came on as substitute against Ipswich Town on Tuesday night to lay on the second goal for record signing Don Goodman . |
| 13 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 14 | Richard Rolle wrote in the fourteenth century of spiritual direction as ‘ full merry counsel with his ghostly Father ’ . |
| 15 | LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny . |
| 16 | Irishman Ken Doherty eased into the fifth round , thrashing Steve Longworth 5–0 but Eugene Hughes lost 5–4 to Scot John Lardner . |
| 17 | Regional CPD convenors met at the third CPD Forum in Windsor in October , which was this year sponsored by the Architects ' Journal . |
| 18 | On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead . |
| 19 | They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh . |
| 20 | Cross the road and take the obvious lane on the other side which leads to a farm and the prominent Arnside Tower dating from the 14th century on the hillside above . |
| 21 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 22 | SUNDERLAND Harrier David Clark scored a unique double yesterday when he won Durham City Nike Destiny Run for the second year running and became the first to break 20 minutes for the four-mile race . |
| 23 | Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash . |
| 24 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |
| 25 | The remote origins of Emanuel School lay in the sixteenth century and a small charitable foundation for the elderly and the young . |
| 26 | David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals . |
| 27 | Valerie Mitchell lived in the next road and travelled to work on the same bus as Paula . |
| 28 | The Arsenal equaliser came in the 82nd minute and denied a Norwich side that had taken the lead after 36 minutes when Ruel Fox scored his first goal for six months . |
| 29 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 30 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |