Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 2 | However , the majority of these had only finished the first level of secondary education — the fifth and sixth years following four years of primary school . |
| 3 | More immediate preoccupations were the domestic economic problems ( inflation , budget deficits , and trade deficits ) which had long eroded the Fourth Republic 's popularity , not to mention French national self-esteem . |
| 4 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 5 | If , when you left the machine , you had already knitted the first row of the cycle , when you return you 'll knit two more of the same row , making a total of three . |
| 6 | Thereafter , Franco began to make a rhetorical distinction between the war against the United Kingdom and the United States , in which Spain took no part , and the war against the Soviet Union , which , in Franco 's view , was a new crusade against communism , of which Nationalist Spain had already fought the first battle during her Civil War . |
| 7 | Solomon had just lost the third set to go two sets to one down , the crowd was baying for American blood . |
| 8 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 9 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 10 | He had just turned the first furrow when a tiger walked up and said : " Peace be with you , friend . |
| 11 | She had just read the last paragraph when the kitchen door opened and Matey entered , far earlier than she normally did , to stare at the unlikely scene before her : Dr Neil characteristically leaning back in his wooden Windsor armchair , McAllister sitting on her stool , reading the paper , the used coffee-cups and the empty biscuit plate sitting between them . |
| 12 | She had just stuck the first stamp on the envelope when a friendly voice behind her said : ‘ Can you manage all right , missy , or do you want a lift up ? ’ |
| 13 | Conjointly , a second attack was to be launched the following day on the Right Bank to capture Fort Vaux , whose enfilading guns had also stopped the Fifth Army on its other flank . |
| 14 | In the second edition of his Romans , Barth had really given the second answer , and Bultmann and Gogarten continued to give it . |
| 15 | And Lewis 's phone call had surely hammered the last coffin-nail into the Cedric-Lucy theory . |
| 16 | Imminence : of course he saw it before the impulse had even taken the first step on its journey from her mind to her body . |
| 17 | Lord Francis had earlier made the first ascent of the Wellenkuppe , but dismissed the ridge linking to the Ober Gabelhorn as impracticable , a view held until the traverse was made in 1890 by L. Norman Neruda , a Swede , and guide Christian Klucker . |
| 18 | He was suffering from exhaustion and cold after helping co-climber Harry Taylor , who had earlier become the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without oxygen equipment . |
| 19 | When he turned up , the traveller was thus not allowed to travel on his booked flight and had instead to travel the next day . |
| 20 | The Block , built by J.J. Oakes & Son , was duly opened on Speech Day , 17th July 1957 , appropriately by Professor Williams , who had recently become the first recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts , " to individuals who have attained early distinction , with promise of future achievements , in the promotion of arts , manufacture , and commerce " . |
| 21 | The big guns , with the horses and crews , had safely negotiated the first quarter of the kilometre 's distance across the icy marsh . |