Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being cook on the last Whitbread she announced her intention to enter the next Whitbread in her own yacht , with an all women crew . |
| 2 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 3 | Couples , the US Player of the Year and defending a title which inspired him to glory at Augusta last April , regained his compsure to cover the last seven holes in one under par . |
| 4 | Although White managed to stop the rot after the restart , taking frame 14 with a clearance of 43 , Davis kept his nerve to win the next 96-5 and clinch the match . |
| 5 | To enhance even further the quality and efficiency of the yard 's hull shapes , he persuaded his father to build the first commercial test tank in the world in 1881 , with assistance from Froude 's son , superintendent of the Admiralty test tank in Torquay . |
| 6 | WHEN in March 1989 the American treasury secretary , Nicholas Brady , announced his plan to reduce the third world 's commercial-bank debt , particularly Latin America 's , he was criticised for being too vague . |
| 7 | In another action , the speed marchers stretched their stride to cover the last 6 of 20 desert miles after a sharp night action . |
| 8 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 9 | This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities . |