Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly they seemed to notice Brenda for the first time . |
| 2 | Even though this was Jack 's own tournament , I decided to quit Jack after the last event of 1983 , the Chrysler Invitation , and start fresh with Greg next year . |
| 3 | Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century . |
| 4 | Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick . |
| 5 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 6 | After all , it was the British and the Russians who had dominated Iran through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries . |
| 7 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 8 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 10 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 11 | The Cossacks had crossed Siberia in the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Opponents claimed that HDZ policies were reminiscent of the fascist ustasha government which had ruled Croatia during the Second World War , and that it was receiving funds from ustasha emigré organizations . |
| 13 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 14 | Royce 's seminars had acquainted Eliot with the second law of thermodynamics if he had not known it before . |