Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea .
2 Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society .
3 Thank you for the compliment you paid the last edition of Rural Wales .
4 Both David Whitaker and Verity Lambert had been captivated by Terry Nation 's Dalek story right from the moment they saw the first ‘ treatment ’ ( story idea ) .
5 Before the meeting they celebrated the 70th birthday of churchwarden Rosemary Paxton and to mark the occasion and her many years of service to the church presented her with a basket of flowers .
6 Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) .
7 That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree .
8 But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered .
9 On the bridge he saw the third officer raise his hand to his cap in a debonair salute , and she waved gaily back .
10 ‘ I remember the hangover I had the last time I went on the tiles with you , and tomorrow I have to ply squash at nine .
11 I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with .
12 The reason he survived the first strike is the reason that you all escaped the second .
13 Lo and behold , you have the full twelve month series from Jan to Dec done and dusted , in the format you typed the first one .
14 Just to see what it would feel like , Boy tried hard to copy this attitude during the film he watched the next afternoon .
15 Leeds started out the second half the way they played the first , but lost their way badly during the course with Oldham coming back into the game strongly .
16 The way I played the first set was not me , not my usual game .
17 Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again .
18 But the way he landed the third time I knew he would n't get up again .
19 It does n't bother me the way it did the first time .
20 By the time they reached the third floor they were both out of breath .
21 ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked .
22 You know , I think the thing was that he was out of date , and by the time he wrote the second book he knew it .
23 By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’
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