Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 2 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 3 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 4 | He returned under a congressional amnesty to contest the 1988 presidential elections , when he narrowly lost the second round run-off ballot to the ID 's Rodrigo Borja Cevallos [ see p. 36097 ] . |
| 5 | But it is sometimes forgotten that as far back as 1909 he built his own aeroplane in which he then made the first recorded flight over Ireland . |