Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 2 | In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited . |
| 3 | In May 1990 the privatization of 28 heavily indebted industrial companies was announced ; another 21 would be liquidated and 200 industrial companies controlled by Greek banks would be sold or liquidated at the next stage of privatization . |
| 4 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 5 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 6 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 7 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 8 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 9 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 10 | I left him there , and headed for the next block . |
| 11 | In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it . |
| 12 | He was arrested and tried for the first time in April 1916 . |
| 13 | And , using all his force , he ran and crashed into the second assassin , who was winching back the arbalest for another bolt . |
| 14 | Many of these features of the modern world were only the surface manifestations of the much greater structural changes begun in early industrialism and accelerated since the Second World War . |
| 15 | He three-putted both the fourth and 12th holes , had only two birdies on his card , and came to the last hole needing a four for a 73 for a ten under par total of 278 . |
| 16 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 17 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 18 | Outside a grand villa in the same city , a priest in an assortment of ramshackle clothing stopped his mule in the gateway , descended by lifting a leg and bellowed to the first person he met , which was Tobie . |
| 19 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |
| 20 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 21 | But the equaliser was always on offer and arrived in the 73rd minute . |
| 22 | Setting the briefcase back down , she dug the notes out of the pocket and turned to the last page , smiling rather nastily . |
| 23 | It was mentioned in Domesday Book , badly affected by the Black Death in 1350 , and depopulated in the fifteenth century . |
| 24 | He turned right and went half-way along the corridor and knocked at the fourth door . |
| 25 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 26 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 27 | This was known as the PC-5A and flew for the first time in July 1939 . |
| 28 | It 's jazz and soul as a street thing , a club thing , ’ he says , ‘ which is where both those forms of music started and thrived in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | Doreen glanced down , and blushed for the first time in a long while . |
| 30 | The offensive was launched on 18 June but was deeply unpopular with much of the rank and file and collapsed in the first week of July . |