Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until vernacular opera made progress during the second half of the eighteenth century , ‘ opera ’ was almost synonymous with Italian opera from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 2 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 3 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 4 | Barclay pulled a pen from his pocket and prodded part of the first plate . |
| 5 | The Islamic fundamentalist Welfare Party ( RP-Refah Partisi — led by Necmettin Erbakan ) entered parliament for the first time , with 62 seats , on an agenda which included withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and renunciation of efforts towards EC membership . |
| 6 | Nijinsky then went to Longchamp as a hot favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , but there , under a less-than-brilliant ride from Piggott , he tasted defeat for the first time , beaten a head by Sassafras . |
| 7 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
| 8 | These Austrian coins first entered trade in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 9 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 10 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 11 | Domestic consumption of grain overtook production for the first time . |
| 12 | Klestil 's campaign drew impetus in the second round from his promise to unite Austria under a non-partisan presidency based on honesty , decency , dialogue and co-operation , in a move to restore Austria 's reputation following the lengthy controversy surrounding his predecessor 's wartime record [ see pp. 34690-92 ] . |
| 13 | Further north , in Poland , extensive Romanesque work in stone and/or brick was carried out , but much of this has been altered through the centuries and the limited remains suffered damage in the Second World War . |
| 14 | The one year Certificate course for ‘ women returners ’ at Launder College was well received and another group received funding for the next year . |
| 15 | Soviet troops advanced into Korea to accept the surrender of Japanese forces ; Stalin kept his word and when American troops arrived on 8 September , they assumed responsibility to the 38th parallel . |
| 16 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 17 | There are few stocks on the London Exchange that have beaten the performance of transaction processing software specialist Gresham Telecomputing Plc : selling for just 14 pence last June , they added ninepence in the last day 's trading before Easter , to close at 143 pence . |
| 18 | Deploying fighter aircraft for the first time since the 1991 Gulf war , with some flights north of the 36th parallel ( i.e. over the Kurdish " safe haven " area ) , the Iraqis also built up in early April their deployment of ground forces , surface-to-air missiles and radar tracking equipment directed north of the 36th parallel , apparently seeking to capitalize on US inaction over " skirmishes " with the Kurds . |
| 19 | Many of these buildings which survive are in northern France and suffered bombardment in the First World War , but all are well restored to the original design . |
| 20 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 21 | Victory , therefore , solves nothing unless it eliminates the source of the antagonism which produced war in the first place . |
| 22 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 23 | When Chris Lewis replaced Malcolm , ball dominated bat for the first time in the match , with nothing to show for it . |
| 24 | It was Geoteam Exploration 's first 3D seismic survey for BP and he paid tribute to the first class performance of the Nordic Explorer and staff . |
| 25 | SADLER 'S Wells Royal Ballet opened their Christmas season at the Wells with a programme which paid tribute to the 60th birthday of Kenneth MacMillan , whose early ballets were staged in that theatre . |
| 26 | He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start . |
| 27 | Cars must go back to the A683 beyond Barbon and that road followed south to the next village of Casterton , which has a school founded for the daughters of clergy and made famous by its association with the Brontë sisters . |
| 28 | So , straight away , Terry Nation sat down at his typewriter and began work on the first phase of any TV writing project , the story idea . |
| 29 | Most of the Alresford reservoir — which began life in the 12th century as a fisheries pond for the Bishop du Lucy — is now owned by the Alresford House Estate Trust , one of whose trustees is the prospective Conservative candidate for Stoke-on-Trent South , Peter Maxwell . |
| 30 | In other words , almost all of the informants perceived incoherence in the first paragraph , when mapping the discourse model of the text world onto their own knowledge of the real world . |