Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |
| 2 | Whilst in the turn Lt Ferris broke away from Lt Marrons ' and attacked the second element of Jigger Green . |
| 3 | Josslyn introduced co-operatives to Sligo and became the first landlord in Ireland to sell his land to his tenants after the 1903 Land Act . |
| 4 | Two months later Deborah passed the Pony Rider tests and became the first Brownie in the Pack to win the badge with the pony on it . |
| 5 | It was also the season in which he captained England at Lord 's , in the absence of W.G. Grace , and became the first captain in Test history to declare an innings closed . |
| 6 | After being stranded on 99 for 25 minutes , he finally lost both patience and nerve and became the fourth player in the match to be dismissed in sight of a century as he charged down the pitch . |
| 7 | She was a devout Anabaptist and befriended James Burton , who was involved in the Rye House Plot , and gave him sanctuary , but she was betrayed and taken to London , where she was tried and became the last woman to be burnt at the stake at Tyburn on 16th October , 1685 . |
| 8 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 9 | If you did n't look up too much , and avoided the fourth side with its terribly huge views across the countryside , you could almost believe you were back in the Store . |
| 10 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 11 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 12 | Jed picked up his glass and swirled the last inch of beer around . |
| 13 | X landed the Cessna and made the first turnoff to the flying club . |
| 14 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 15 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 16 | We set off , stopped at random , pottered around , changed our plans , and got the first crossing from a port we had n't arrived at . |
| 17 | He hung up and got the last volume of the bigger directory from the rack under the table . |
| 18 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 19 | We developed and built the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon , and the first satellite for geosynchronous orbit . |
| 20 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 21 | We could have started off with ten cubed and found the fourth root of that . |
| 22 | However had the United States regarded the joining of a nuclear free zone agreement as incompatible with the Pacific Security Treaty it could have made a claim of material breach and suspended the first agreement with respect to New Zealand . |
| 23 | The team won the first leg 2-1 and drew the second leg in Belfast on Wednesday night to qualify for the first round of the tournament . |
| 24 | By now I had a baby sister Clare , and it was something that happened to her which helped to shape my destiny and provided the first step on my road to Koraloona . |
| 25 | Air operations in Hawaii were put under the direction of Lt Col Art Wildern ( USAF , ret ) who hired and trained the second crew of pilots who were to do the flying in Hawaii . |
| 26 | His ‘ Wares had left their billets and accomplished the first part of the plan , leaving some of their number behind to allay suspicions . |
| 27 | Roirbak sighed , and dropped the last piece of droid into the plastic sack he was carrying . |
| 28 | Down the third row of stones he tried in the garden of remembrance , he found the spot where Heather had raised the camera to her eye and captured the second image in the sequence he was seeking to follow . |
| 29 | Then a group of local armourers assembled in the square , were blessed at a makeshift altar and turned the first shovelful of earth on the foundations of the new building . |
| 30 | I retraced my steps and climbed the second flight of stairs . |