Example sentences of "the [num] [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Roderick 's party attacked the guns off the starboard bow , the 12 men capturing the first gun 's sandbagged emplacement in a grenade-throwing rush along the dock wall . |
| 2 | In the 1870s Suttons introduced the first single-coloured , double-flowered petunia ; it was a delicately fringed white called ‘ Lady of the Lake ’ and cost just 25p a pack . |
| 3 | Ahead was the daunting sight of the three grandstands enclosing the last green . |
| 4 | All the reports agreed that there had been a gradual but marked increase in the intensity of activity on Krakatoa during the three days preceding the twenty-sixth . |
| 5 | PAT O BANE BAN The ten heartbeats preceding the first heartbeat of orgasm |
| 6 | Shelley stretched out luxuriously on the sun-lounger , as the two girls caught the last of the sun beside the pool . |
| 7 | The snub came against a background of smiles as the two leaders signed the first treaty between Britain and Russia since 1766 . |
| 8 | As foreseen under the peace agreement , officials of the two parties began the first meeting of their Joint Political and Military Commission , together with Soviet , US and Portuguese representatives , in Luanda on June 17 . |
| 9 | Never one to rest of the chic laurels he had begun to gather , in the mid-Seventies Lagerfeld became the first ready-to-wear designer to have his own fragrance . |