Example sentences of "he [verb] [num] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 2 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 3 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
| 4 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 5 | He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald |
| 6 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 7 | He collected four of the first five wickets and , on the day , had figures of 11–7–8–4 . |
| 8 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 9 | He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty . |