Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lille 's mayor confirmed an agreement with Tour de France organisers for Lille to stage the prologue on 2 July followed by the first stage to Armentieres the next day . |
| 2 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 3 | One of the features of the morning foursomes was that no less than five out of the six matches went to the 18th green , or beyond , before the professionals emerged with a 4 to 2 lead . |
| 4 | Three children survived from the first marriage , John , Richard , and Alice , who married Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , the customs official , and one daughter from the third , Elizabeth , who married Sir William Morgan of Monmouthshire . |
| 5 | Following violence between ANC and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) militants in the township of Bekkersdal , west of Johannesburg , where at least 11 people died in the first week of February , there was a joint peace appeal by the four main black political organisations . |
| 6 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 7 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 8 | But as one parent said at the last gathering : ‘ Why do we all have to be so matey ? ’ |
| 9 | Ironically , given the state of collapse of communism across Eastern Europe and the avowed reformist intentions of the BCP , when Lukanov 's proposals for the composition of his government were approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 8 Bulgaria acquired for the first time in its history an all-communist government . |
| 10 | Fox 's five kicks came in the 21st , 39th , 43rd , 51st and 79th minutes . |
| 11 | Fox 's five kicks came in the 21st , 39th , 43rd , 51st and 79th minutes . |
| 12 | The launch of Rolls Wood Group News on 1 April coincided with the third anniversary of the Company and was well received . |
| 13 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 14 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 15 | Item twenty four meeting held on the eleventh of January are received those in favour please say aye . |
| 16 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
| 17 | During an official visit to France in December 1989 Kaysone confirmed for the first time the death of the former King of Laos , Savang Vatthana . |
| 18 | This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year . |
| 19 | Two wickets fell on the fourth evening , but Ellison stayed with Gooch for some time next morning , as did Gower . |
| 20 | Two gunmen went to the first floor and opened fire on two men in the salon , fatally injuring Mr Hughes . |