Example sentences of "and were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 2 | In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes . |
| 3 | Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important . |
| 4 | In 1893 they changed their name from Royal Arsenal to Woolwich Arsenal , adopted professional status and were elected to the Second Division . |
| 5 | All these have several domes carried on pendentives and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . |
| 6 | The derivations given here are due to the author and were published in the first edition , but Larson has also carried out similar work independently . |